No. What basically happens is that a product architecture is designed and coded and a product is built. It goes through several rounds of bug fixes, optimizations and updates. You see these as new versions which do make money for the software company. Somewhere along the way, it is decided that a new architecture is needed for some fundamental reasons. In the case of Adobe, it could be 16 bit or some such. Anyway, this usually requires a fairly major ground up rewrite to accommodate the new system. This effectively gives you a version 1 codebase again that will have more bugs and less optimizations. It usually doesn't even fully harness and exploit the new design. Long term, the new design may be better, but it is difficult for the user base to swallow initially.
-- Best regards, Bruce Sunday, May 16, 2004, 3:26:22 PM, you wrote: >>Photoshop CS sounds very much like a relatively new code base that now >>needs some serious cleanup and optimizing. C> Forgive me for butting in here Bruce, as I know absolutely nothing about C> software creators or the business practices therewith entwined, but isn't C> that what all the usual round of updates are for, at $XXX a time? C> Cheers, C> Cotty C> ___/\__ C> || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche C> ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps C> _____________________________
