Wise Studio Package 7.0 SP4

Can you give me the URL of where you saw this information? I have not heard about an SP4 release yet and, as you say, it does not appear to be available for download.

I've checked with Wise Support regarding the release date, and all they are telling me is that it is 'tentatively scheduled for the first quarter of 2009'. They mentioned they do not give out exact dates of a product release due to last minute changes to the product, which may push that date back.

Yes, that is pretty much the same as I was hearing at ManageFusion, hence my surprise that it's apparently being mentioned as available somewhere.

You can see the release date of SP4 at http://www.symantec.com/busine..._details.jsp?pid=56161

Thank you for providing the link. I have notified the Wise Product Manager that incorrect information is being shown on a Symantec website and hopefully this will be corrected soon.

FYI: the mention of SP4 at the link is now gone!

SP4 is still tentatively scheduled for Q1 2009.

Q1 has ended almost but NO new release OR SP4...
Can anyone at Wise/Altiris/Symantec give me the contact info of the Productmanager from Wise Package Studio .
I really want to know if there will be any new release...

Currently the competition (AdminStudio) is really blowing Wise away with new features , and full virtualization support ( ThinApp, App-V and Citrix XenApp.)

I make a living out of selling Wise Licenses and training... but if there is no new version coming out for the last 3 years customers are looking at the competition to see lot's of development going on there...

Please , publish a roadmap or something.

Jeroen

Meanwhile they are putting out solutions to issues in SP4!

https://kb.altiris.com/display/1n/kb/article.asp?a...

Is there a KB number ? The link you have posted only takes you to the KB search engine

Damn!
It's 46191 (It's in the link's URL) dated 3/20/2009
also if you can browse to it: Altiris Products -> Wise Package Studio -> SP4

I have emailed the product manager for Wise to check whether SP4 has actually been released for general consumption.
There was an intention expressed by Symantec to limit the availability of service packs to users with maintenance agreements, but I have not heard whether this was implemented or not, so I've asked for an update on that as well.

The Wise PM has confirmed that WPS7 SP4 has not been released.
I am still trying to find out why the KB has suddenly sprouted a product category for WPS7 SP4, with one posting attached to it - clearly if this relates to internal testing then it should not be in the public KB, but no further information is currently available.

Something has to happen soon. The least Symantec could do is to inform us if they plan on developing on WPS or drop the product. As I see it now WPS will surely die if they don’t start communicating with the WPS community.

The product manager has indicated that he may discuss the product roadmap with customers but only on a non disclosure agreement basis.
You can email him at michael_grueber@symantec.com should you wish to follow this course.
WPS has significantly fallen behind the competition in terms of being able to support environments such as Visual Studio 2008 and Windows 7, and the release of SP4 which was supposed to happen in Q1, has clearly slipped and no information is available publicly as to when it might appear.  I too find the lack of product roadmap or any kind of communication on the product's future to be most frustrating.
Bearing in mind how long ago Symantec acquired Altiris and therefore the Wise product family, you would have expected to see some indication of their plans for the product by now. The absence of any such information cannot be good news, as no business likes to lose customer share for a product they intend to remain competitive.

Wise Package Studio 8 Launch at Packaging event 2009

We have waited a very long time for an update to WPS7 SP3.
Who will be doing the presentation from Symantec?

At this moment Symantec will send Michael Gruber to the event as the Keynote speaker.

check out : www.packagingevent.com for more information.

Atlast.. hope at the end of the tunnel.. Tho I wonder how many customers Symantec lost to other packaging tools in the last couple of months.. Anyway im really excited, lets hope its not just thin air ^^.

October 8th is the launch of WPS 8, but I've not heard exactly when it will be available to ship.
Does anyone know when it is scheduled to be available?

Our big concern is what is the future of Wise Script Editor?   Our entire packaging world is done in Wise Script Editor (the one found inside of package studio 7.x)   Will this be laid to rest or does Symantec plan on continuing to use and update this tool?  

It is a pity that the wisescript editor has not been updated to provide true 64 bit support. The list of updates provided by Evan are mostly bug fixes - there are few that I would frankly consider "enhancements". Not really enough new stuff to justify buying a new license I feel.

As an earlier poster remarked, the updates in WPS should have been released as WPS7 SP4 a long time ago.

Thise with a maintenance agreement are naturally catered for, but the remainder of users are faced with buying new licenses, which realistically means that there is a good chance of losing these users to Installshield.

Regrettably, I don't believe there is any chance of Wise buying out of Symantec, as many of the core personnel from Wise have long since moved into other areas of Symantec to further their careers.
Most users regarded Wise as being the best tool to work with, and it is a crying shame that both Altiris and now Symantec have failed to maintain product development and marketing investment to remain competitive and retain user mind-share.

Oh man, what a disappointment.. Been waiting for a new release or at least a SP4 for WPS 7 for a year or more, at long last Symantec decides to release WPS 8 and what do we get? A couple of hot fixes and that’s basically it ;(.

Only positive thing to say about the release of WPS 8 is that it’s still on the market, been considering other MSI package tools the last couple of months until the announcement of WPS 8 came around, and after trying it out, im back to where I was months ago.

These so called “changes” in WPS 8 looks more like a hotfix/ServicePack than a new major version of the product… Its beyond my imagination that anyone would release a bunch of fixes as a new major release.

A huge disappointment indeed...

It looks like the "Support"  for Wise products has been cancelled as well..
This is really going the wrong way...

I hope someone can buy Wise back ... ( where are the old owners from former Wise Inc.?)

Things appear to be going in the wrong direction for Wise Package Studio since Altiris and Symantec came on board. 

I surely agree with Richard!