Not sure if it's really the 1st (you know IT industry existed for 3 decades when Microsoft appeared). Adding the month Ubuntu is a
bit more precise
Jacques
From: "Shi Yusen" <sh...@langhua.cn>
I guess Microsoft is the first to use this style. Windows 3.0, Windows
3.1, Windows 95, actually Windows 4.0, Windows 98, actually Windows
4.1...
在 2009-03-27五的 09:09 +0100，Jacques Le Roux写道：
Maybe that's why Ubuntu renumbered Dapper Drake from 6.04 to 6.06 ?
(Actually I think it was from real delays they got)
Jacques
PS : don't you think OFBiz is sufficiently important to have versions names like Ubuntu
does ? Could be "Wind not superstitious".
Mmm... I'm bad at marketing, noway... :D
From: "Shi Yusen" <sh...@langhua.cn>
> Just for fun:
> symbol pronounce meaning
> 9 immediately,now
> . click
> 4 die
> 9.4 now click and die
>
> HAHA
>
> Anyway, happy the great release is coming.
>
> Shi Yusen/Beijing Langhua Ltd.
>
>
> 在 2009-03-26四的 11:37 -0600，David E Jones写道：
>> While not superstitious I do find numerology to be interesting...
>> Could you explain some of the background behind 9.4?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -David
>>
>>
>> On Mar 26, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Shi Yusen wrote:
>>
>> > Personally, I would prefer keeping 9.3 rather than 9.4 for the version
>> > number. 9.4 is a very bad number in Chinese. :) Or 9.5?
>> >
>> > Shi Yusen/Beijing Langhua Ltd.
>> >
>> >
>> > 在 2009-03-25三的 16:32 -0600，David E Jones写道：
>> >> I've started putting together some ideas for the press release for
>> >> our
>> >> upcoming release branch. The time is a little tight... I had planned
>> >> on doing this last week but it got lost among other things.
>> >>
>> >> To facilitate collaboration on this I've created a confluence page
>> >> for
>> >> it here:
>> >>
>> >>
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Press+Release+for+Release+Branch+9.3
>> >>
>> >> Before writing the actual press release I thought we should do some
>> >> brainstorming, so please add thoughts there (if you are a committer)
>> >> or respond to this message with other thoughts.
>> >>
>> >> I'm going to send a message to the ASF PRC to ask for their help and
>> >> guidance on this. It may be that they write the actual press release,
>> >> so our brainstorming thoughts and details we add there are probably
>> >> the most important part of what we as a community put into this.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >>
>> >> -David
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
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