NetObjects Fusion 5.0 For Windows Upgrade

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00003PNN2
• Item model number: FUSW500U-R-333
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #27,763 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
It's never been easier to make your existing site more robust with NetObjects Fusion. Simply import your sites from remote Web servers or local hard drives into the NetObjects Fusion environment. And once you do, you'll immediately gain the easy-to-use, drag-and-drop power that has made NetObjects Fusion the leading small-business Web solution. The new NetObjects Fusion release raises the bar on ease of use, power, and support for small-business Web builders. It's loaded with great new features that make NetObjects Fusion 5.0 the best yet.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fusion 5.0 -no thanks, February 15, 2000

By	Darin Nederhoff "s-cars-go" (Iowa, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

To be perfectly honest, I love Fusion but REALLY dislike version 5.0 at this point. I have been using version 4.01 for quite a while now and I've been very happy with it's capabilities. With that said, it is beyond me why version 5.0 was released. The new version contains a number of bugs (well documented within the Fusion newsgroups).

As a previous version 4.01 user I was quickly impressed by the ease of use and ability to manage a large scale web site. One of my major complaints with version 5.0 is it's inability to publish to my NT server. I have to do a local publish on my hard drive and then use an FTP program to transfer all updated pages and files. This is a MAJOR pain. NetObjects changed FTP clients between version 4.01 and 5.0 and as a result I can't seem to use it to publish directly to my web server. (It does seem to work on Unix Apache servers however)

There are a number of bugs in the new version, and _in my opinion_ this product should not have been shipped yet. I now have a $100 upgrade that I don't even bother to use. Stick with 4.01... at least until NO issues a patched version. (Supposedly a patch is to be released within the nxt 90 days in order to fix a number of problems)

If you want Fusion, go with 4.01 -at least until a patched version of 5.0 is available.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Run away from 5.0!, November 9, 2000

By A Customer

We bought several copies of 5.0 ... for our little company intranet, and were horrified to discover that only one person could edit the NOD files. Ever. If we wanted, we could buy the version that would allow four users to edit the same NOD ..., but if five of us needed to edit it on occasion we had to go to the next level. .... This was a no-brainer. We are not web-jockies, but we bought Dreamweaver. Too hard. We went back to NetObjects, but used a previous version - 4.0. To the folks at NetObjects: Greed (and excessive vanity) goeth before the fall, folks, and there simply is no excuse for this. Not only that, but friends of mine that had recommended NetObjects products for years warned me that NetObjects 5.0 causes irreparable corruption to the NOD file, and complete loss of the site, unless considerable levels of backups were made. I don't have time for this, and I will not be buying the upgrades for this product in the future. We are all stocking up on 4.0. This is the height of stupidity in software marketing. What a pity because 4.0 was one of the best, easiest to use web tools in the industry.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fusion 5.0 "beta"?, February 14, 2000

By	Darin Nederhoff "s-cars-go" (Iowa, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

To be perfectly honest, I love Fusion but REALLY dislike version 5.0 at this point. It is beyond me why this product was released as it contains a number of bugs. As a previous version 4.01 user I was quickly impressed by the ease of use and ability to manage a large scale web site.

One of my major complaints with version 5.0 is it's inability to publish to my NT server. I have to do a local publish on my hard drive and then use an FTP program to transfer all updated pages and files. This is a MAJOR pain in the...you know what for a large site. NetObjects changed FTP clients between version 4.01 and 5.0 and as a result I can't seem to use it to publish directly to my web server. (It does seem to work on Unix Apache servers however)

There are a number of bugs in the new version, and in my opinion this product should not have been shipped yet. I know have a $100 upgrade that I don't even bother to use. Stick with 4.01... at least until NO issues a patched version.