It has been a issue Since the passing of Bob, they don't bother to post any advance warring , send out emails or use twitter. It has a lot of people nervous thinking about all that has happened with Bob Passing.
When the company no longer cares about their product or takes pride in it, demonstrates a severe lack of work ethic, and no longer cares about the users, there really is nothing one can lay their hope on and try to be positive about. I do not blame the people who are nervous or the people who have jumped ship. Heck, PB Inc. has kinda jumped ship themselves. You can't blame the users for treating the product with the same lack of respect that PB treats the product with and you can't blame the users for treating PB Inc. with the same lack of respect that PB Inc. treats the users with.
IMO, the beginning of the end sadly began with the death of Bob on 6 Nov 2012
IMHO, I put the beginning of the end a couple of years before Bob's death. Bob's death merely hastened the timeline along.
The best thing that could be done now is the company put up for auction before it is really too late!
That time has passed. The complete mismanagement of this past year has all but destroyed any legitimate value the company and products held. Unless PB Inc. is going to pay a company to take ownership of PB Inc. and the products, I can't see anybody trying to buy it when PB Inc. has all but destroyed the user base over this past year. PB Inc. might want to consider just shutting their doors for good and leaving the site down and just disappearing now, instead of prolonging things and eventually finding themselves in bankruptcy, severely in debt, or something equally as unpleasant. PB had a good run. Bob is gone. With Bob gone, it seems to be like a lost episode of The Three Stooges at PB Inc. Vivian has lost her husband, is reported to have some health issues and should worry about herself and her family and not have to deal with the stress of PB Inc. anymore. There is no shame in shutting the door on PB Inc. and nobody can say she didn't try to keep it going.
It has been well over a week since Vivian said that a new team was in place, but not a peep out of the them though she said that communication was high on the list to fix. They are not off to a good start.
Is the second or third new team? I have lost count. Each team seems to get progressively worse.
It is every time the same, they feed us with lies and false promises and think we're stupid enough to believe that, but that's a mistake, most people have long understood that the company is at the end. Mrs. Zale is obviously no longer able to solve the problems of her company. I've rarely seen that a company is going so unprofessional!
It is almost to the point where it
feels like you have people taking advantage of a widow.
Hey Nick, it's not the downtime that suck, it is the fact that it happens all the time, and apparently no one is doing anything about it. Most of the users have already been therefore fed up. Even the business conduct is under each level!
It truly is a case of "just when you think things could not get worse"...
Why should you even care or pay attention
Given that this is a programming site and not a dating site, I find it disturbing that you have such an emotional investment in what Patrice thinks or cares about.
You never have any positive comments.
Given that Bob Zale was well-known for his negative comments, Patrice would fit right in with the PB Community, no? However, I have yet to see Patrice make a negative comment, he has simply expressed an honest opinion. Honesty is a positive, not a negative. Just because you disagree with Patrice's opinion does not make his comments negative. If a negative light is cast on something, it is generally because of the person holding the flashlight and doing the observing.
but how may here are posting about Microsoft when it completely drops a product you have been using. Or breaks your software with upgrades.
Getting upset about Microsoft making a screw-up would be like getting upset because a baby wets itself. It is one of those things you expect. Bob held his products to a higher standard than Microsoft. The shape PB Inc. is in now, where they can't even function well enough to stick CDs in an envelope and mail them to the customer who ordered them and paid for them, is unfathomable to most users.
A few years back, I took a chance on Cad software that had a forum, but they discontinued the forum when plagued with hackers, but I still use the software.
There is a big difference between a compiler and a CAD program. Unsupported software is often not allowed to be used in a corporate environment. Even for paid contract work, some people would not ethically use PB at this point, because it is all-but unsupported due to the state of flux PB Inc. is in.
The IT guy is on holiday this week so the site will be up again on 28th October.
With the continual changes of "teams" at PB, nobody has even been on staff long enough to be entitled to any vacation/holiday time.
