A Letter From the President
March, 2010
To borrow a common platitude, March is definitely coming 'in like a lion'. In Florida, this is our brief spring
before the onslaught of summer heat and hurricanes. While most of the
rest of the country is still under snow or gray skies, we're already roaring
ahead.
And for once, we can say the same thing about our development efforts!
In fact, when I announced IPM Classic last month, I'd set a target date
for May for a Beta, with an end of summer release. To our glee, we may be
able to beat that projection by over a month! Later this month we'll be
adding IPM Classic pages to our website, so watch for that. A downloadable beta
will follow thereafter. We'll
also be preparing another newsletter when we have the date for an introductory
IPM Classic Webinar.
Meanwhile, we have achieved some milestones with IPM 10 that are equally
pleasing. We knew it would start to "settle down" this quarter, and
we're pleased to have many, many more enhancement requests than bug reports.
And we've just done a significant performance enhancement that improves
speed by 21 times in some functions! Now THAT's optimization! Now my goal is
to percolate that technology throughout the application. That's the kind of
change we know will expand IPM 10's usefulness to larger operations, too.
So while for us the month did come in like a Lion, it won't be
leaving like a Lamb. We expect to end March like ae a pride of lions!
Yours,
William J Bennett
President