February 3, 2006
SDL Trados ‘06 in the pipeline
Following the heels of Trados 7.1 upgrade in late December there seems to be an upcoming release, SDL Trados 2006, some time in March. This release is about bundling the Trados Workbench and SDLX products, making them available together and according to proz TGB, at a price level comparable to each of the former CAT tools separately. The fact that SDLX does not appear in the name of the product seems to suggest that the SDLX brand will be the one that eventually will phase out.
So it seems that finally SDLX and Trados will be soon merging functionalities more seriously, but at this pace of releases, I wonder if we are in front of a shift to a rent-a-CAT model, with upgrades every few months, almost a subscription!
Regarding the tools themselves, what I liked from SDLX was how it simplified things for the translator and what I liked from Trados was the scalability (in terms of response time) of their translation memory engine. What I disliked from SDLX was the little annoyances here and there of its features, which IMHO needed more testing before release and, from Trados, the feature-stagnation of the translator’s front-end. I’m anxious to see the outcome from this upcoming merger of tools. I’m also anxious to learn about the few CAT alternatives that are said to be in the pipeline, and that should hit the market over the next few months.
posted by Josep Condal
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