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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jun 18, 2009 at 06:06 PM
I was quite impressed by Normfall Manager’s presentation, so I downloaded and installed it. Sure enough, it has a 3-pane outline layout (tree, attached files, notes pane) reminiscent of IDEA!, Zoot and the majority of e-mailers. I admit to being quite attracted by this layout as it permits organising a great number of items, while still maintaining a fairly modest tree.
However, Normfall, a .NET 2.0 application disappointed me greatly in terms of performance; CPU usage reached 75% while I wasn’t doing anything; even if it was indexing the 2-3 files that I had imported, it is still too much.
Performance is very important for me so I decided to uninstall it. The verdict might have been too quick, but time is rather scarce at this period in my life.
Alexander
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Normfall Manager looks like a very powerful application; I am surprised
>I’ve never seen it mentioned before (not even by the lawyers here, to which it is
>originally aimed). Once again, it is a product of the ‘German School’; to me it seems
>like a cross between Sycon IDEA! (in terms of the outline organisation) and AskSam (in
>terms of importing the actual documents).
Posted by Frederick Wahl
Jun 19, 2009 at 07:46 AM
Frederick Wahl wrote:
>Although their website claims Norfall is Vista compatable, it apparently doesn’t
>like Vista Pro (64 bit). I sent an email to their tech-support a couple of days ago, but
>haven’t heard back. I’m hoping there will be a fix soon.
I did get an emal from Pascal Hassenpflug saying he was sorry for the delayed response, but their support department has been on vacation. He seemed very interested in solving the problems I’ve been having and I look forward to getting Norfall Manager working soon.
Posted by Frederick Wahl
Jun 19, 2009 at 07:59 AM
Frederick Wahl wrote:
>Although their website claims Norfall is Vista compatable, it apparently doesn’t
>like Vista Pro (64 bit). I sent an email to their tech-support a couple of days ago, but
>haven’t heard back. I’m hoping there will be a fix soon.
I did get an emal from Pascal Hassenpflug saying he was sorry for the delayed response, but their support department has been on vacation. He seemed very interested in solving the problems I’ve been having and I look forward to getting Norfall Manager working soon.