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Subject: Re: Authorware Vs. ToolBook II

Wendall Cada (26p/+0r) Posted: Wednesday 28 Mar 2001
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I have been using AW for two years now, and have never used ToolBook. AW is not the first design tool I have used for CBT's. I have used many others and like AW the best. My biggest complaint about toolbook from the start is that I couldn't give it a test drive. Unlike AW and several others, I haven't seen a trial version of ToolBook II version 8 anywhere. This aspect makes even considering ToolBook out of the picture for me. I am not going to ever spend $2500 to try something out. Let me have a look for 60 days and sure, I am potentially a customer. I reverberate this to all my customers now, and either use AW, VB or a combination of the two. I see no demos on the ToolBook site. In addition, how can a few paragraphs of text and a "buy now" button sell anything. Even though MM has just as poor of samples on their site, at least they have them, and give you a chance to try it out. Based on MM's advertizing materials for AW, I would have never purchased it, but since I had the chance to try it I did purchase it, and do recommend it to clients. (IMO, MM should really think of putting up some of the TAAC and EUROTAAC materials on the site or samples on Apurva's site, MojoMole, etc. It would probably be much better than the "Featured Companies" that have zero samples on their sites of work done in AW.) Paul Allen may own stock, but he might have to realize Click2Learn isn't Microsoft, and many people won't buy products of this nature before they try them out, ie. Windoze.

Wendall

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