Re: No more upgrades or bug fixes?

["Kenneth B. Frank" kfrank@xxxxxxxx]

Myron Gochnauer wrote:
>
> > <- The pointful thing to do would be to assemble, cooperatively, a list of
> > <- bugs (_not_ new features) that they should address. It would give them
> > <- something concrete to consider.
> >
> I think we should assemble such a list. It would be helpful to have a
> list of bugs people have run into if only to minimize the "what have
> I done wrong now?" syndrome everytime someone runs into a bug they
> haven't seen before.
>
> Myron

At the risk of sounding surly or grumpy (thanks, Tim) I would also
welcome this list. I can't promise how much of it will get applied to
the DOS product, but it certainly will be useful for the next release,
about which a number of you have inquired recently.

A short answer to that inquiry is that a large publishing customer of
ours is about 2-3 weeks away from an initial controlled release of an
extensive application built for them on our new product. The version of
our software that ships with that product is not the generic product all
of you might use daily as your word processor, but it is a substantial
foundation for the product that could be. For about 30 days following
that release we will be doing clean-up and fixes on that version in
preparation for its general release, and then we will turn our attention
to making it into a more general purpose product.

Realistically I imagine that will be an approximately 3 month cycle. We
will certainly have beta before that, probably in a month to
month-and-a- half.

It has been an enormous amount of work to build this product, but
everyone who sees it thinks it is very exciting. If any of you are near
our offices we would be happy to demonstrate it for you.

K.