I guess that release issues have existed in RB for quite sometime.
" The other odd thing that occured with the release of 2.0 is that
there was no stop in the flow of new developer releases once "2.0"
came out. They were called 2.0.1a1, a2, etc., but they may as well
have been DRs. Just look at the release dates in our news section, and
you'll see that 2.0 came smack in the middle of a ten day streak of
daily updates. When 1.0 came out, there wasn't another developer
release of it for two months!
So if "2.0" was really a developer release, why was it labeled as
release quality material? Like most things nowadays, I suspect money
was the key factor. It's been a while (almost a year) since 1.0 came
out, so the stream of registrations is probably slowing down a bit. As
a company, REAL SW has to make money to avoid debt or even bankruptcy,
so they took their easiest way to get in more money: make people buy a
new version.
As long as version 2.0.1 and its followers fix most of 2.0's bugs,
this strategy is fine by me–I always use DRs. However, charging $100
for an incomplete, and buggy program is hardly going to get good
reviews for you. Let alone charging an extra $200 for two even more
incomplete features (databases and windows)...
Frankly, releasing 2.0 before it was ready doesn't raise huge
problems for me. The real problem is that for most people, it will.
REAL's income might jump up for a while, but this stunt might come
back to haunt them."
Kind regards,
Giovanni
rbml at alphaview dot com
On Apr 30, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
>
> On 30-Apr-08, at 10:57 AM, dda wrote:
>
>> Heh, those who still remember Geoff's email announcing Andrew Barry's
>> departue, please raise your hand. Bonus point for remembering the
>> date
>> ;-)
>>
>> --
>> dda
>
> Andrew left Sept 1, 1999 but the announcement was on July 12, 1999
> Sept 1 was the ship date for version 2.1
>
> Lots of history at http://www.nd.edu/~jvanderk/rbm/
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