Major upgrade this week?

[Andrew Abernathy]

Heh. Sorry to disappoint, but it's not _that_ big a deal. OmniOutliner 
2.0 should go final very soon, and we needed the online store to be able 
to handle upgrade sales, and the updated store supports that. Also, 
OmniObjectMeter 2.0 (developer tool) will be shipping quite soon, and we 
needed to support upgrade sales for that also.


As an FYI, our updated store is back online now. It uses a shopping cart 
approach instead of having you fill out quantities on the main page. The 
old way didn't lend itself to dealing with upgrade sales, and could be 
confusing if you didn't see the "continue" button at the bottom of the 
page. Hopefully this way will be better. We do plan to do a visual 
makeover, but this is not it, and I'm not sure just when we're going to 
have the time to get that done, though it's fairly high priority.

The new store still can't handle sales of physical product, I'm afraid. 
That's a high priority, but I don't have an ETA on that either - there 
are a few other priorities I have to deal with first, and some things, 
like WWDC, are looming large. For now you can get the OmniGraffle boxed 
edition (with manual, or just the manual by itself) from BuyOlympia (who 
will continue to do fulfillment once we handle the sales directly from 
our site) - there's a link on our store <https://store.omnigroup.com/>. 
Note that for the moment, the boxes still contain OmniGraffle 1 CDs, and 
you have to download 2.0 (however, it's a free upgrade due to several 
factors, such as our repositioning of the product). We'll have 2.0 CDs 
soon, but the manual will not be changing (there will be a "changes from 
1.0" page in the box). I believe I got all that correct.

Our store is now hosted on Mac OS X 10.1.4 - until now it was being 
hosted on the old Mac OS X Server 1.2. This will make it a lot easier 
for me to do ongoing development on it, and should be more stable. 
(Watch it crash tonight just to spite me.)

-andrew


On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 09:29  PM, Jason Simmons wrote:

> MacNN has the following on their website:
>
>> The Omni Group is expected to unveil a major product upgrade this week 
>> as the company reorganizes its online store and product offerings. The 
>> Omni Group is a leading developer of Mac OS X-native applications 
>> written in the Objective-C development language. The company's 
>> offerings include OmniWeb, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner and 
>> OmniDiskSweeper -- an array of products widely adopted by Mac OS X 
>> power users.
>
> I just checked out the store and it looks like it is just down for 
> modifications.  Is something up or is MacNN full of it?
>
>
> Jason Simmons
> jason75 at mac.com
>
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