From: dick@silicon.csci.csusb.edu (Dr. Richard Botting)
Subject: Re: Three releases and rewrite?
Date: 1996/08/15
Date: 1996-08-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4uvm3r$ave@news.csus.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4utj8s$14q@su102w.ess.harris.com
Scott McCoy (smccoy@hisd.harris.com) wrote:
: General question: In the recent past, as my group has gotten more and
: more away from pure DoD development and more into non-government work,
: I've noticed something:
: It seems like a rule of thumb for commercial software applications
: is that after three major releases (i.e., 1.0, 2.0, 3.0), you
: rewrite the application from scratch.
[...]
: Is this a reasonable rule of thumb?
This may be rather like Brookes's observations.
My own rule is to never buy an even numbered release.
: ON HUMILITY
: To err is human, to moo bovine.
To err is human, but to really foul things up, make it into a law or program.
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1996-08-14 0:00 Three releases and rewrite? Scott McCoy
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Dr. Richard Botting [this message]
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Scott McCoy
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