It reminds me of my days of being an international road warrior being stuck in an airport while someone was repairing the plane. There would always be these guys screaming about a missed connection or meeting and demanding to take off NOW! I always said that if the Pilots weren't willing to fly the plane, I didn't want to be on it!
If a software company doesn't want to release a product, you don't want to use it! The current craze in the software world is something called Agile Development which views software releases like a train schedule, in other words, we will release new updates every x weeks and whatever is ready to go will be part of that release. The assumption is that the released functions are thoroughly tested but I have witnessed (in my former employer) that the pressure to "meet the train schedule" it sometimes delivers stuff before its ready. I think the expectations of the customers produce a huge amount of pressure on a company to release stuff before its time. You have to admire those that don't, even when they are as quick to fix as Flex has shown with the beta releases (and how few problems exist in the released versions). 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Tim Ellison <telli...@itsco.com> wrote: > I think the proper word would be "expectation" and as any company, managing > your customer's expectations is a full time job and one we all can get > better at. I have to work on that every day for my company. > > > > -Tim > > -----Original Message----- > From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto: > flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Burt > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:27 AM > To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Which PowerSDR version to use? > > Promise may be the wrong word to use but it was clearly expected by January > 2010. We are now into almost April and it looks like the summer might be the > best bet. > No one's release of any software ever comes early, few on time but Flex has > been better than most on living up to its predicions. I am still using 18.1 > because it works. I imagine no one at Flex is getting rich on ham gear as we > are not known as easy to part with money. It's done when it's done works for > me Burt > > --- On Thu, 3/25/10, Tim Ellison <telli...@itsco.com> wrote: > > > > I do not believe anything related to > > software or hardware delivery by FlexRadio was ever "promised". There > > were estimated dates of delivery, but it was only that; best guess > > estimates. I do know that FlexRadio wants to release PowerSDR v2.0 as > > soon as it is humanly possible and if it could have, that would have > > been months ago, but PowerSDR 2.0 is an omnibus release. There are so > > many low-level technical changes, performance improvements and > > features in addition to the cosmetic changes to the console (skins) > > that it has taken more time than expected. In addition, due to > > timing, they had to integrate a new radio and the FLEX-VU5K (v/u > > module) into the code and that was not planned for the 2.0.0 release. > > As Gerald said in Dayton last year, "it will be done when it is done" > > meaning that when they are happy with the quality of the product, then > > they will release it. Hopefully that will be soon. > > > > -Tim > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz > > [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] > > On Behalf Of Burt > > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 8:36 AM > > To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz > > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Which PowerSDR version to use? > > > > Was this promised for release in January 2010? > > > > --- On Wed, 3/24/10, Tim Ellison <telli...@itsco.com> > > wrote: > > > PowerSDR 2.0 is not released software - yet. It is > > alpha software > > > that is under development and is not recommended for > > new users or > > > those who desire a stable, reliable operating > > environment. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
