When David W. Fenton writes:
I think they are going to have to abandon the yearly upgrades. I
think it's a really bad business practice in the first place, because
it places a schedule on development that is artificial -- a software
development schedule should be determined by the goals of the
projects currently on the table for implementation/revision/fixing.
MakeMusic is also now in a situation where their yearly upgrade is
coming out at an inoppportune time for schools -- releasing in August
and September and October is not a very good time for that. If they
took 18-20 months for their next release,
and I personally doubt that the upgrade cycle is one that is completed
within a year. Rather, I'm guessing that the development cycle is 36 or
48 months, and that a new cycle is started about every 12, so that some
group within MakeMusic! already is already working on what is going to
be in 2k9, that the list of what will be in 2k8 is already pretty well
fixed and design work is substantially completed, and that the
programming work on 2k7 is substantially completed, and with the alpha
testers.
ns
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