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- From: lindor@eng.umd.edu (Lindor Eric Henrickson)
- Subject: Re: Win 3.1 for OS/2 will >not< release this month
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.180238.22949@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 18:02:38 GMT
- Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
- References: <1992Dec9.232055.28242@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Originator: lindor@feedback.eng.umd.edu
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- In article <1992Dec9.232055.28242@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan) writes:
- >
- >I recently spoke to someone at the OS/2 telephone support about a problem
- >I was having with the Win-OS/2 in the service pack. While discussing
- >the problem, I asked about the next release of OS/2 (the one containing
- >Win 3.1 support). He told me that while IBM is still aiming for an
- >end of the year release date, the problems IBM is encountering with
- >the service pack are making a lot of people at IBM concerned about
- >trying to release the new code so quickly. Apparently there
- >is feeling that an inadequate amount of testing was done on the service
- >pack and that it didn't meet IBM's quality standards. Therefore the
- >IBMers want to make sure that the next release is up to snuff. According
- >to the IBM rep, they will do two rounds of beta testing on the new version
- >code before release. This made it fairly certain in his mind that the
- >release would not happen in December.
- >
- >I admire the IBM person's candor. I would much rather have a bug free
- >product a little late than a buggy product now, and I am glad IBM
- >thinks the same way. It's refreshing to encounter something besides
- >most software companies "push it out the door" mentality. Probably
- >Microsoft fans will jump all over this, saying that IBM missed a ship
- >date. I don't really care. To me it's much more important that a product
- >be of high quality than be in line with some artificial date on the calendar.
- >
- >--Tony
- >quan@cs.stanford.edu
- >
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-
- Agreed!
-
- LH
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- lindor@eng.umd.edu
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