Re: when to expect 3.8 (was Re: (PM) Single D / multiple PRI)

Garry Shtern (shterng@akula.com)
Fri, 23 Jan 1998 10:49:14 -0500

At 07:26 AM 1/23/98 -0800, Andy Doolittle wrote:
>
>How about 'limited' rather than 'closed'? We pick a bunch of sites -
>how many depends on the product among other factors - and monitor them
>constantly. As mentioned elsewhere, this requires lots of bandwidth on
>both the customer and the beta engineer's time - simply not enough extra
>to open early testing to a broad audience. We do our best to assure
>that we don't do 'closed' testing, and I hope noone accuses us of being
>even remotely like Windows 95.

I was not implying that you are Microsoft ;)). I was simply saying that at
a certain stage of your development, maybe lets say 2nd beta, you should
made it available to people explicitly stating that it may be buggy in a
sense. As you receive more feedback about it, you will further the
development and eliminate even higher number of "bugs" in your software.
Makes sense?

Garry Shtern shterng@akula.com
Chief Network Administrator http://www.akula.com
Akula Communications Corp. tel. (212) 292-8892

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