Here at Encore, from our experience of commercial software and our use of (and contributions to) open-source, we recognise the importance of a community around a program.

For our latest updates to Shu, released today, we’ve listened to our community and responded.

Many of you have let us know that while you really like Shu and feel it fulfils your application needs, the pricing of Shu has been hard to pass on to
your clients.

As a result, we’ve restructured our prices, and we hope they’re more in line with your needs.  The changes: Shu and Shu SA now cost $185 and Shu SA Lite is a snip at $45.

On top of that, today we also rolled out a very useful update to a couple of our most popular Shu commands — exec and execAsync — to enhance the way they behave when executing GUI vs. non-GUI external applications on Windows.  Our updates let you easily display GUI apps, but without having to worry about the dreaded console window when you do launch a non-GUI utility command.

There’s plenty more updates in the pipeline for Shu.  We love to hear feedback at Encore as to how people are using our software, and their views on how it could be improved, so please keep your comments and suggestions coming to help us know which improvements the community is most interested in.