RES: [Paraview] stability of paraview

[Dominik Szczerba]

My experience with commercial competitors to PV (and commercials in
general) is rather bad. They crash like everything doing complex things,
but most annoying is very poor techsupport and no possibility to make
fixes myself. Plus I have neverending network license problems when on
the move with my notebook. Plus it may not even install at all and they
wouldnt know why.
With PV you get instant support on the ML and bugs (at least those few I
submitted) were acted upon quickly.
Dominik

Renato N. Elias wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> You've put a very curious question... Quality Assurance should be a prime
> concern for any software around the world and it seldom happens -- MS
> Windows and most of the Linux distributions are examples of softwares with
> doubtful quality. In my opinion, ParaView, even for an open source software,
> has much more quality than some very well known (and expensive)
> visualization tools. Before ParaView I used to work with Ensight and Ensight
> always crashed even doing naive things (and we are talking about an
> expensive visualization tool). In some cases I reported these annoying bugs
> to the CEI's support and I'm still waiting for solution up to now... .
> Furthermore, most of the simple PV problems you can quickly solve by
> writting a message to this forum. I'm sure you will be promptly answered by
> some more experienced user or even a PV developer when your problem or
> question is more severe. Moreover, in an open-source project any user is a
> valuable beta tester. We should also emphasize that ParaView is a software
> that has been developed with an excelent development framework. The
> Kitware/PV team is constantly feed with opinions coming from a bunch of
> users around the world that post their messagens in this mail list. The PV
> team also has a bug report system which gathers and qualifies each bug
> reported not to mention the quality dashboard system.
> 
> You know, softwares will always crash (mainly when you're in a hurry having
> to finish an urgent work). Any software with more than one programming line
> will always be wrong - more or less - but they'll be always wrong ;-)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Renato N. Elias
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> 
> 
> 
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: paraview-bounces+rnelias=nacad.ufrj.br at paraview.org
> [mailto:paraview-bounces+rnelias=nacad.ufrj.br at paraview.org] Em nome de
> Peter J. Bismuti
> Enviada em: segunda-feira, 12 de junho de 2006 17:31
> Para: paraview at paraview.org
> Assunto: [Paraview] stability of paraview
> 
> 
> Hi, here at Boeing we're contemplating using Paraview as one tool for
> visualizing solutions from an in-house CFD code (Navier-Stokes). There is
> concern that an open-source produce won't have an acceptable level of QA.  
> There have been some reports of frequent crashes.  Anybody care to share
> their experiences or opinions?  
> 
> Thanks
> Peter Bismuti
> Boeing
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