Milestone Arcus VMS Tested
Author: Ethan Ace, Published on Oct 21, 2015
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Comments (4)
John Honovich
Milestone needs to focus more on execution. Milestone talks a big game about 'leadership' and the 'power of partnership' but they clearly struggle to deliver. Not only has their post-acquisition new product release rate been weak, even the few things they do release, like this WD / Arcus 'partnership' are poor. When there are so many mistakes like here, this is a leadership problem and reflects a failure of Milestone's executives to focus the organization on delivering viable products.
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Mike Matta
Thx Ethan. Very interesting. Do you know wether the Arcus product varies in functionality based on the hardware unit? They have several devices where the app can be flashed (or comes pre-flashed) - https://www.milestonesys.com/our-products/milestone-arcus/ - not sure if the feature set is comporable to what you witnessed with WD.
side-note: I think the Arcus site is dated, doesn't even show the WD partnership.
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