> IMO RS should reorganize their company and start to make use > of a QA department (Quality Assurance). No product that has > not been thoroughly tested and okay'ed by QA gets released. > Of course once you're commited to a quarterly release plan > like they have, you're effectively shutting out any > possibility of effective quality control, and it should be > listed relatively high on the list of "100 ways to screw > yourself and your customers". > At the time I did voice my concern, and I'd much rather sit > here having been proven wrong.
Unless something has dramatically changed, they have a QA team. A regular release schedule is reassuring in many ways - it also allows the vendor to more effectively plan upgrade campaigns. But if the schedule becomes the sole metric, then it drives you to cut out the more intensive issues/features or let them slide from one version to the next because the cycle is just too short. Also, my understanding is that the beta list is only accessible if you have a current license. If you are mid-project, then its very likely you do not want to upgrade your IDE - I have a project under RB 5.5.x that runs just fine (and about to be released) and one attempt at using 2006 ended up with a lost developer week. With no idea what is coming, if the bugs holding off an update to RB 200X havent been addressed, then upgrading is simply a matter of finding the current version in use (5.5.x) is totally broken. That isnt encouraging for sales ;-) I can live without Universal Binaries for now (Rosetta is fine for this solution) - my expectation is that Vista compatibility will be upgrade driven but I hope not - because the problems introduced under RB 2006 were just too much trouble to fix otherwise. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Proactive International, LLC - Because it is about who you know.(tm) http://www.proactive-intl.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
