The email stated “ The release of FTK 2 has created much more confusion than we had anticipated, so we would like to take a moment to once again clarify a very important point……FTK 2 is not meant to be a replacement for FTK 1 for all customers….We acknowledge there are challenges with FTK 2, such as slow processing, complex installation and GUI response issues.
If a user did get FTK 2.0 working, and did use a small amount of data, the results were still poor FTK 2.0 seemed to take the worst parts of FTK 1 and the worst parts of EnCase 4 and combine them, it was a terrible tool, and everybody recognized this.Įventually in May 2008 AccessData sent out a formal apology to FTK 2.0 users (much to Guidance Software’s amusement). Then, after they had wasted a couple of days installing and uninstalling FTK 2.0, they had to move them back again. This meant that users had to move licenses between dongles. To make matters worse FTK 2.0 used the codemeter dongle, rather than the FTK 1.x green dongle. The hardware specification required for FTK were far higher than most expected and the oracle installation was clunky/awful. The AccessData press releases stated “ The product is designed to handle extremely large data sets and to meet your needs as case loads and case sizes continue to increase“, but users quickly found this was not true.Those working with anything other than very basic data sets found that the idea of indexing 100 GB of email with FTK was pointless and the system effectively died.īut, only a select few even found this out as getting FTK 2.0 working was not an easy task. The initial release by FTK 2.0 was, by any measure, an unmitigated disaster. However, following another months delay FTK 2 was released on 19th February 2008.
In January 2008, at New York Legal Tech, it was stated that FTK would be released “this week”. Pricing was discussed in 2007, but there was still no product release in 2007. Access Data even went as far as to state that FTK 1.x would no longer be sold after November 2007. In 2007 FTK 2 was beginning to market the the release of FTK 2 as “soon” with beta demos being available for testing and public demos of the tool available from October 2007. This message was put out year after year. Five years after FTK 2 was first touted, and 1 year after FTK 2 was released, where is AccessData with the much maligned tool?Īs early as 2004 AccessData was talking about the release of FTK 2 with a release date “of this year”.
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