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- Subject: Re: name of VMS product has changed...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.153401@mccall.com>
- From: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:34:01 CST
- Reply-To: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
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- In article <1992Aug18.182842.3645@spcvxb.spc.edu>, terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry
- Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes:
- > Just think how much they're saving by not having to mail out urgent
- >reminders
- >to "do not install Rdb 4.1" "do not install Rdb 4.1A", etc.
-
- I must have missed the "do not install Posix 1.0" letter. :-)
-
- > Seriously, there is a growing quality problem with DEC's software, and sup-
- >porting the same product across N platforms (VAX/VMS, Alpha/VMS, VAX/Ultrix,
- >RISC/Ultrix, ANY/OSF) is only going to make it worse.
-
- Do you suppose that hyping it to the marketplace 6 months before it is ready
- might be putting pressure on developers to get it out early, rather than taking
- the time to make it work? As far as multi-platform support, it will certainly
- take more resources, but often times a bug will be uncovered on one platform
- that was latent on another. I'm not sure it intrinsically affects quality,
- except to the extent that it increases the pressure to skip the testing, because
- the developers are spread thinner. (So what does DEC do? Lay people off, of
- course.)
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