>I read on the CF support forums that a alpha release *has been* shipped. >That is not a claim about a future version, that is a fact from the >past. It would be nice if something like that was announced on the >mailinglist for Neo.
That is exactly the sort of information that should NOT be released. If an institutional investor or two like say the state of California's Pension plan and the State of Oregon pension plan should look at that and say, "Ah. An alpha. That means the final version will ship in three weeks. That means MM gets a big boost to it's revenues through the upgrades. Let's buy a million $ of stock and sell as soon as the upgrade hits." Well in this software world, an alpha means, well, not a lot. Timing wise at least. Maybe there is a catastrophic bug or the lead developers get food poisoning or all the alpha customers tell us we need to license Age of Empires and make that a built in feature. Well at that point, the product isn't shipping in three weeks like the investors thought. By both of them buying the stock, they have bid it up. Now one, Oregon, takes the small profit when the product doesn't ship and California holds the stock. Well Oregon's sale drops the price, there is no release and California has a case that the original statement that there was an alpha was designed to pop up the stock price and that they were defrauded. I know this sounds lame, but it is exactly how this business works and both Allaire and Macromedia have been sued on less than that. With a law suit it doesn't even matter if there is a case or not, you have to defend and that is a leach on the vitality of any organization. There is a Neo information section on the Macromedia site and that is more than we EVER do before a release. More by a long shot. We would never even consider doing this for UltraDev or Flash. Not for an instant. For now that has to suffice. There will be more information as soon as we can put it up there safely. http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/resources/neo/ _________________________________________________________ Matt Brown Community Manager Macromedia (650) 481-4525 [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
