Re: Portent of things to come - huge downloads

[walter biscardi] "You might be right on the VAR thing. They download it for their clients and then ship them on discs."

It's going to be a nightmare for bigger facilities too. Of course with a release like this I'd recommend doing one workstation which might be heavily used but on less demanding tests, to see how buggy the software is. Then they can stagger installs to their other seats.

I can imagine a VAR being able to setup some kind of "facility" account where they can do one download for a "facility" based iTunes account and then install from a disc on location.

The strange thing if there's any way to manage this through VARs they aren't talking and I can't see something like how such things are handled being served by an NDA at this. This really requires some advance facility management and scheduling.