Re: RB Release Cycle Stability issues - A suggestion:-

["Ronald Vogelaar" <enter at rovosoft dot com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Fredricks" <lfredricks at proactive-intl dot com>
> Unless something has dramatically changed, they have a QA team.
I worked for a company that had a QA team. While formally everything was put 
in place for QA to work as it should, it just didn't. The team's efforts 
were continuously frustrated by the company's short term goals.
When short term earnings become more important than any long term vision 
you'll find the ground under your feet eroding away faster than you can say 
'Quality Assurance'.
When the customers' expectations continuously fail to be met, that's writing 
on the wall.
Ronald Vogelaar
http://www.rovosoft.com


> A regular release schedule is reassuring in many ways - it also allows the
> vendor to more effectively plan upgrade campaigns.
>
> But if the schedule becomes the sole metric, then it drives you to cut out
> the more intensive issues/features or let them slide from one version to 
> the
> next because the cycle is just too short.
>
> Also, my understanding is that the beta list is only accessible if you 
> have
> a current license. If you are mid-project, then its very likely you do not
> want to upgrade your IDE - I have a project under RB 5.5.x that runs just
> fine (and about to be released) and one attempt at using 2006 ended up 
> with
> a lost developer week. With no idea what is coming, if the  bugs holding 
> off
> an update to RB 200X havent been addressed, then upgrading is simply a
> matter of finding the current version in use (5.5.x) is totally broken. 
> That
> isnt encouraging for sales ;-)
>
> I can live without Universal Binaries for now (Rosetta is fine for this
> solution) - my expectation is that Vista compatibility will be upgrade
> driven but I hope not - because the problems introduced under RB 2006 were
> just too much trouble to fix otherwise.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lynn Fredricks
> President
> Proactive International, LLC
>
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