short beta for 2009

neil · 2008-05-25T09:15:27+00:00

ok to put a bit of life back into this recessive group heres a recent bit of news that seems to have gone without much comment anywhere..beta for 2009 will be 8 weeks not 15 as last time - according to Mike Pluckets blog entry.Now in looking around the net a bit to remind myself about whats been happening since I was seriously engaged with following the life and times of SW I rediscovered this youtube item originally from matt in Jan is there anyone out there who believes these two positions - (the striving for 'quality','performance' and 'scalability' as espoused by the new CEO as a message he had his ears warmed with many times to good effect vs. the new apparently castrated beta phase)- are consistant and will lead to a better release this time?Is this foreshortening an admission that beta testing in the past was just an entertaining diversion for 'believers' encouraged by the marketing department or have they just taken the axe to something very valuable?Is beta for instance now relegated to a show and tell primer for future sales or is it an honest vetting of things to be duly attended to in due course?...Many people were of the opinion previous beta testing didnt actually produce real results by the time sp0 shipped if at all or that the rewards didnt match the effort they might have put into it, so does it actually matter what they do with it? does the offering of more prizes engage you as never before or would you prefer discounts from subs for example?..Do you expect the shorter beta will mean the release wont mature until even later than usual and even more people will leave it on the shelf than 08?If you have alot of seats on subs are you happy about that possiblity?Is this a make or break time for you as a loyal customer?I seem to remember SW moved from beta to beta in ridiculously short periods recently - even skipped directly to release before people got a decent look at it or there was a something akin to a release candiate.If the gestation period has...

May 25, 2008 21 Replies

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brewertr 18 years ago

All that time you were claiming that YOU hated the rollback bar because YOU had to determine customer design intent and YOU make arbitrarily changes to customer solids. Then YOU let it slip that your company has an engineering department.

So what exactly is your engineering department doing while you are trying to determine customer design intent, hacking and whacking customer supplied solid models?

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TOP 18 years ago

Paul,

Pro/E was the standard then for parametric feature based modelers and it still is.

SW could have been the standard for user interfaces for parametric feature based modelers, but for the fact that they can't figure out what the standard should be.

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