Re: RANT: Is 2006 ready for the big time yet?

Hehe - Just so we are clear I am referring to the beta testing that the
public is doing RIGHT NOW (for 2006), not those kind souls that
previewed the software before release and gave feedback . . . I get
the impression that SW is fully aware of this situation and that they
don't mind putting out a product that is "good enough", but still
sub-par, perhaps some gaping holes with the mentality that "we can't
possibly test everything, let's let the public find it for us".
Unfortunately if the thousands of folks who rush right to the new
release were told "oh yeah, you are our second wave of beta testers and
if things go bad, we might be able to fix it, we might not, you will
now have to communicat with us via the enhancement request and SPR
system (largely broken in my mind)" then we (the public) might not rush
to upgrade so soon.

By the way, I am not opposed to having imperfect code released as long
as the things are non-catastrophic bugs and not real show stoppers -
new functionality will always have usability issues. I think that
their threshold for what they are willing to release into production is
much too low and the end result is that too many "heavy hitters" hit
the street, wating for us all to find them and report them, costing
those of us who "jump too soon" into the new release to lose
productivity. There is no value in any of this for us, and ultimately
for them - if they continue to erode their credibility by releasing
unstable stuff. I think that for us to upgrade to a new version it
should not be like stepping up to the roulette table in Las Vegas with
the hopes that things might possibly work out, maybe if we are lucky .
.. .

My wish is that they might take some of our maintenence money and hire
a few more validation engineers.

Later,

SMA

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