OT: Java versions (was Re: Final Notice: Meeting Today at 4pm EDT - New Room URL)

[Fairlight]

Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Kenneth Brody done said:
> Quoting Fairlight (Wed, 18 May 2005 19:48:48 -0400):
> [...]
> > > Java2 AKA Java 2.0 began with 1.2 and includes 1.3, and 1.4. When they
> > > got to 1.5 they decided to call it 5.0.
> >
> > Cute.  Very logical.  Not.
> [...]
> 
> I guess it's release 5.0 of Java 2?
> 
> I guess filePro 4.8.0 could have been "version 8.0" of "filePro v4"?

You had to start?  :)

Why not?  Bud said they're making the next release 5.6 with (what I
consider) barely enough justification for it, from what I've heard of the
back-channel scatter regarding features.  Most of which should have been
in LONG before now (like 2gig file limit handling that Bud loves to tout
as if it's the next best thing since sliced bread, and something simply
amazing--when it should have been in a few years back when everyone was
breaking the 2gig limit).

I guess bringing things into line with the modern world (a quarter way,
anyway) is justification for arbitrary version bumps.

Wonder what customers would think if I jumped from OneGate 02.11.00 to
32.01.07 in one fell swoop, after adding only about 4 new features.  A bit
of hyperbolic comparison, but in the same ballpark in principle.  There
would be the same lack of compelling evidence for that high a mark-up.

It's at points like these that version numbers cease to have any meaning,
and just become designation labels.  You may as well code-name the product
versions, for all the good it does to have numbers there.

mark->
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