RE: Next release?

Phil,

I don't care how you like to call it; service packs, inter-release
enhancements, web downloads, ... as long as I see the product maturing.  If
I have to wait two or more months before something happens it is to long for
me (and I will be back at TN5250 with PDM).

And for those big customers, I doubt that the current WDSc 4 is installed in
that many companies at a production level (which is something different that
having downloaded or played with it), and so important that installing fixes
is an issue.

I even don't care if those inter-release enhancements wouldn't be fully
tested or stable (however the less bugs in it, the better offcourse).  I
know this is M$ strategy, throw something over the fence, and in the mean
while they're using it, but at least they're using it and see frequently new
enhancements.

It doesn't sound logical, but it works better than promising that it will be
ready next year.

Kind regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:wdsci-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of coulthar@ca.ibm.com
Sent: zondag 18 augustus 2002 18:31
To: wdsci-l@midrange.com
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Next release?


Paul, of course we are not allowed to speculate about announced releases,
otherwise I would say that you can assume it will be based on the next
release
of our base product (WSSDA), so you might expect it within a few months of
the release of that. FYI, WSSDA's next release will also be based on the
next
release of Eclipse (2.0... which is out and many are very excited about)
and
the next release of WebSphere (which is not out).

We rarely put out releases within two months of each other :-). That
usually
gets our large customers upset as it is time-consuming to upgrade all their
developers' PCs.

I take it then your vote is either for inter-release enhancements via
service
packs, or some other form of Web download.  Correct?

Phil Coulthard, iSeries Software Architect,  IBM Canada Ltd.
coulthar@ca.ibm.com. 905-413-4076, t/l 969-4076




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Hi Phil,

No problem... but you forgot to mention one thing !

When is the next release due ?  I know it is very difficult to commit to
such promises, and/or what it will include, but as mentioned in my initial
mail this will be very important to not only attract new people to WDSc,
but
to keep them interested.

Remember that two months is a huge time frame for a user to see some things
changed (I also know how developers look at this).

Kind regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:wdsci-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of coulthar@ca.ibm.com
Sent: zaterdag 17 augustus 2002 21:04
To: WDSCI-L@midrange.com
Subject: [WDSCI-L] RE: WSSDa feedback


Oops!! I forgot to delete the original text... sorry for the very long
append!

Phil Coulthard, iSeries Software Architect,  IBM Canada Ltd.
coulthar@ca.ibm.com.

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