OO 3 on the way (or not, depending on what you mean by on the way)

[Erik Price]

On Jul 27, 2004, at 9:23 PM, Stephen Chakwin wrote:

>> The development and testing of OO3 is progressing at a rapid pace now.
>> We've got a schedule that is working for us and I believe I know about
>> when we're going to ship. I'm hesitant to be more specific about the
>> projected ship date because so much non-engineering work is left to 
>> do.
>
> OK.  It seems less than rapid from outside because of early word about 
> a
> potential June release date.  And then it seemed that features that 
> had been
> in play were backed away from.  In the context of a rewrite from 
> scratch,
> this makes sense.  In terms of what I thought we were told it didn't.

Textbook example of why most software companies are hesitant to give 
any information about release dates or features.

Ups to tha OG for doing it anyway.

-- 
Erik Price

<http://erikprice.com/>