On 4/12/07, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Think Microsoft is the only company having trouble shipping its OS > on time?
I'm hard-pressed to name a company that does ship extremely-large projects on the date they first guessed. Denver's Stapleton airport? The IRS's unified workstation? The FBI's case file management system? I'm glad to see software that ships when it's _ready_, not some arbitrary date picked by over optimistic programmers, middle managers or marketing departments. I was surprised to see the number of Open Source packages at the zero-point-something level. It's a remarkable bit of honesty that the package is not yet fully debugged, or needs more features, or needs additional work before it's done. Wine is probably one of the more extreme cases, hanging in the 0.9x region for years. But there's a lot of truth in that. That said, four-plus years to ship XP pointed to deep problems in their process, something Microsoft themselves have admitted. Open Source's tenet of "Ship Early, Ship Often" is a far better technique, like XP's short iteration cycle. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
