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- From: bertrand@socs.uts.edu.au (Bertrand Meyer)
- Subject: Re: TOOLS Conference Report (?)
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- Organization: Computing Sciences, Uni of Technology, Sydney.
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- Date: 22 Aug 92 10:45:19 GMT
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- From quarrie@cds001.cebaf.gov (David Quarrie), about the release
- of ISE Eiffel 3:
-
- >The $64k question is of course, when???
-
- That's the one question which we will not answer (at least, not for that
- kind of price) until the day we actually start shipping to the entire
- user base. Enough people have seen the version now in the US, Canada, Europe
- and Australia to testify that it's real. It is being used internally at ISE
- with much excitement. But it is not quite ready for shipping to the world at
- large.
-
- As I mentioned in another posting a few weeks ago, we were exploring new
- ground and have encountered a number of unexpected problems,
- some quite late in the process. The solutions to all of these problems
- are known; but implementing them has delayed other important tasks, which
- must be addressed before we can ship.
-
- We know that many people are eagerly expecting the release and apologize
- to anyone whose projects have been impaired in any way by its absence.
-
- Let me use this opportunity to thank the user community for having
- kept the pressure to a most gentle level. We know that your standards
- of quality are high and we will meet them.
-
- -- Bertrand Meyer
- Interactive Software Engineering Inc., Santa Barbara
- bertrand@eiffel.com
- (Temporarily at University of Technology, Sydney;
- mail to usual address will follow.)
-