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[sparnai]

Hello

I have a question if I understood right X6 release date is 31 of October 2011
and my maintenance expiration day is 31 oct 2011 does it mean that I can update to x6?

[Bruce Caulley]

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nevermind....

[sparnai]

its an answer or what how understand your nevermind?

[gcode]

Yes you can install X6

[Hockey Guy™]

The better question is why you would want to after reading the problems that most of the users (not all) are experiencing.

[sparnai]

first of all interesting
secondly have alternate possibility to work
thirdly take a look at x6 (not right now) with hope what in sp1 mostly problems will be fixed and should I be thinking about renewing my maintenance

[gcode]

My advice would be install X6 and make your own decision.

[K2csq7]

Of all the users on the forum here....

47% are using X6
53% are not using X6.

(Thanks James!)

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My advice would be install X6 and make your own decision.

True Dat!!!

I would advise the same, but I will not give that advice by itself.... kinda like sending a kid down a hill on a bike without brakes and not telling him he doesn't have brakes.
Read up, look at the issues others are having and use that information to determine if X6 would be ....... good for you or not.  
Thank you to the VOCAL FEW that have been kind enough to take the time & make their experiences public knowledge.
Since there is no public "bug list", the only information available other than the "What's new" PDF that ships with X6 has been provided by a FEW VOCAL members of this forum.  
Though they may have been frustrated when posting their  "experiences" (understandably so since a bug bit them), I appreciate having somewhere to turn for UNBIASED information.

Make a few programs in X5 (or whatever version you are comfortable with), then open the same file in X6, post it & compare the posted code from each version to see if your getting what you expect to get.

FWIW.....
I stopped using X6 to produce code for our machines.

[Rickster™]

^^^^ I agree, no such a thing

How ever the ops manager is very unstable and
Is causing me a lot of time and aggravation.

There are some things that save me time, but the
Work I do has unveiled more minus then plusses.

I am sticking it out with x6 on the hope a bug fix comes out
In record time.

[sparnai]

if my maintenance expiration date 31 oct 2011 I can install X6, but can I update it to MU1?

[gcode]

sparnai, on 29 June 2012 - 01:05 AM, said:

if my maintenance expiration date 31 oct 2011 I can install X6, but can I update it to MU1?

No, the cutoff date is 2/29/12

[newbeeee]

^^^this in my opinion is very wrong. If you paid for X6, you should be able to install mu1 and mu2 when that is released.
X7 no, as that is a major, but yes for the incremental fixes for the relevant (major) release.

[gcode]

when maintenance was first introduced, there were SP's (service patches) and MU's (maintenance upgrades)

Anyone elgible for a major release was elgible for an SP, MU's required current maintenance.

IMO , X6MU1 should have been an SP... but I'm not calling the shots