David Anderson

The last news post we had was ( gasp! ) 3 weeks ago regarding some news about BitFlex, and 4 weeks ago about FaultTrack. We’ve been really busy chugging away at preparing the new website changes for our flagship product and for customers, as well as on FaultTrack itself.

Since we’ve last posted a blog we’ve reworked many parts of FaultTrack and have fixed over 100 known bugs, and are still polishing it for release. Thanks to our private testers we have fixed numerous bugs and issues we would not have encountered otherwise, and some of them were nasty bugs. Never the less, progress is still underway and we are aiming to release this month, and very soon at that. The changes to the website are actually done for the most part, but still need QA tested and polished.

I can disclose some details about FaultTrack, so here we go with the most common question we’ve received. There will be a free edition.

Free Edition

• 1 Team Collection
• 1 Team Project
• Does not come with Tier Instrumentation (read further on)

It was a tough decision if we were even going to have a free edition, but we thought it would be a good thing. Yes, it only comes with one team collection and one team project, but you can still work on a team on that project with unlimited accounts. If you need more than one project or collection, you will need to purchase the Full Edition for each member of the team, however.

Standard Edition

• Unlimited Team Collections
• Unlimited Team Projects
• Tier Instrumentation
• $39.99 Per Product Key License

Each user who needs access to more than a single Team Project or Collection must have their own unique and purchased product key. So basically, each individual must purchase a $39.99 product key license. This will unlock the full functionality of the application and give each member who has a Standard Edition key full access to work as a team and on multiple projects.

Both the Free Edition and Standard Edition will allow you to utilize user permissions and teams. The core of requiring a product key will be needing more than one Team Collection or more than one Team Project.

What we’ve been doing

We’ve made countless improvements to the user interface, performance and quality of FaultTrack. We’ve reworked some of the user interface a bit and also implemented a few additional features such as fault locking management for administrators, and multiple server management. We also made improvments in the database engine support for both MSSQL (SQL Server) and MySQL. Right now we are supporting SQL Server 2005, 2008, Azure, and 2008 R2, and MySQL 5.5. We will be doing some testing on other versions of MySQL server before release so we will have more information as that comes to pass.

We also are working with some private testers and collecting user experience feedback, and we are taking it very seriously. Based on our private testers feedback we may hold off on releasing or release sooner. But we are still aiming to release this month.

So keep your eyes peeled, because we will have another update soon and maybe even a video for you all featuring everything we’ve done to date to make FaultTrack what it is today.