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

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:36:05PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> 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.

<chuckle>

You watch Veronica Mars?  The words "Ubuntu" and "Hoary Hedgehog" were
heard on the second to last ep of the season.  :-)

I'm pretty happy with the numbering over on the PostGreSQL team,
myself; they're one of the few project teams that seems to give a crap.

Cheers,
-- jra
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