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What's in a name?

posted 2006-12-19 16:40:50
by Andrew Thomas

It's been a while since my last blog post, and I apologize for that. Everyone here has had their nose to the collective grindstone with so many things happening at once. A few weeks ago we put on our very first WorldSummit in Europe, and from all accounts it was a smashing success. I'll let Bill talk about that further in his upcoming entry. I've been busy working on a new case study for the Resource Center, and I urge all of you to check it out. It's about how Matrix, one of our LSP Partners, used the WorldServer SDK to create an intuitive portal for their customers. The engineering team has also been hard at work. So much so in fact that we've got too many good features planned for the next release to call it 8.5. Programmers usually like to complain about feature creep coming from marketing, sales, or existing customers, but this time these guys just didn't know when to stop. Here's an abreviated list of some of the things you can expect to see in WorldServer 9:

• New features to support review and track changes during localization workflow


• Complete machine translation integration


• A brand new customizable notification system exposed in the SDK


• New integrations with Perforce and SharePoint


• User interface for new deployment functionality


• Project Group automatic actions that run across projects in multiple languages


• Attribute sharing across multiple WorldServer objects such as TM and TD


• Filter groups and easier filter configuration


• General usability improvements for the Explorer tab


• And a slew of term database enhancements

And there's a whole lot more that I can't even talk about yet. Of course in addition to all of this, WorldServer 9 will come with many bug fixes and extensions to the SDK. When we put all that together it added up to more than the .5 you were expecting. I tried to convince Marketing to go with 9½, but I don't think they like fractions much. Anyway, maybe you've heard us talk about WorldServer 8.5 at a past WorldSummit, or in one of our Yahoo user groups. Or perhaps as an existing customer, we included you in an early specification review for a feature you're interested in. When we said 8.5, we really meant 9. Sorry for any confusion this might cause, but we all thought more is generally better than less.

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