Panther-to-Tiger upgrade

FileWave today announced that its flagship software suite is able to automatically upgrade Macintosh workstations running Mac OS X v10.3.x to the new Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger. "Initially it was considered impossible by everyone we spoke with at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference this year," said Norbert M. Doerner, chief development officer at FileWave. "But because we have a real enterprise solution for Macintosh systems with unique abilities and functions, we were confident that we would find a solution." Current FileWave customers will be able to learn the process of this major upgrade to Mac OS X Tiger in a workshop to be held in several cities worldwide in the following weeks. Businesses not using FileWave will be able to license the software with special pricing until the end of this year, or they can pay a fixed usage fee for a one-time upgrade to Mac OS X Tiger within a limited timeframe.

"Our engineers did an amazing job enabling this complex procedure, knowing that no other solution in the market currently allows the automated upgrade of a live system to Mac OS X Tiger," said Ben Forsyth, CEO of FileWave (USA), Inc. "This capability will save our customers countless hours of tedious manual labor and also a lot of money, as it takes on average one hour for a manual upgrade on one system. With FileWave, the live automated upgrade to Mac OS X Tiger takes just a few minutes on multiple systems."

by MacNN Staff