RE: [WDSCI-L] Re: New version of WDSC

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark

I think I'm with you now - esp. after the endorsement ;-)

As you say, it would be nice to get individual fixes from time to time, 
sort of like the PTFs that eventually end up in a CUME. Is that along the 
lines you are thinking? Or hot fixes like MS uses. Individual issues. Lotus 
uses a similar scheme (for SmartOffice, at least (I know, I had to use it 
while on contract at IBM), but the little bit I looked at it, it was hard 
to find anything I needed.

Vern

At 04:13 PM 8/7/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> Vern,
>
> I think a key difference is that you have a lot of happy users of your
> product.  I know because we use it.  The only time we ever need or want
> something new from you is when we need a new version for compatability
> with something like V5R2.  With WDSC, I think it is a different story.
> Many of us want to use the product but run into a number of discouraging
> problems that make it difficult.  If we felt fixes were possible and
> forthcoming it would ease that problem.
>
> Two comments on the fix issue.
>
> 1)  No one would be forcing anyone to install the quick fixes, you could
> always wait for the tested service packs.
>
> 2)  My new bug scenario was just a "hypothetical problem".  Hopefully,
> most of the time fixes would be just that -- fixes.
>
> Mark