On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:36:59 +0000, Pommier, Rex wrote: >I was confronted with a letter that started with "Thank you for >being an alpha test site for our product".
Phil Payne is gone, and so is his web site, but it lives on at the wayback machine. His Devils IT dictionary at http://web.archive.org/web/20160304181947/http://www.isham-research.co.uk/dd.html has this to say: <quote> alpha release n. The venture capitalists have threatened to cut the money unless we ship something ... beta release n. Still doesn't work, but the alpha release didn't convince the VCs and we need the revenue stream. </quote> -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
