"Donny Simonton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/06/2004 03:12:43:
> We have been using 4.1 in a production environment since about a month
after
> 4.1.0 was released. And we have run into a bug or two now and then, but
> that usually happens the first day we try something out. Overall, I
won't
> install any other version.
I would entirely agree with this, if it were my personal call. But the main
reason I want 4.1 is the excellent character set support, in particular for
Japanese customers. And regardless of the actual quality of the underlying
software, I will have great difficulty convincing Japanese customers that
something labelled "alpha" is suitable for use in a critical environment,
which is where it will be. "Beta" or "Gamma" would be difficult enough, but
"alpha" is effectively impossible. Luckily I have three months before the
possible first shipment to Japan. But it is still a problem shipping
software which, while I know is entirely fit for purpose, is labelled by
its own designers as unstable. OTOH, I obviously *need* the character sets
for these customers.
Alec
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