From: smccoy@hisd.harris.com (Scott McCoy)
Subject: Re: Three releases and rewrite?
Date: 1996/08/17
Date: 1996-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4v4uom$q8j@su102w.ess.harris.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.840287749@schonberg
In article <dewar.840287749@schonberg>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
|> ": 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."
|>
|> I can't think of many examples. In the case of OS/2, it was after one
|> major release that it was rewritten. Word Perfect is on version 6 without
|> a major rewrite. Lots of other products are beyond three major products.
|>
|> So, an interesting hypothesis, but a dearth of supporting data. Yes of
|> course we know about Windows, but one example doth not a rule make!
|>
Examples? Mosaic, Word for Windows (and some other MS Office applications).
And, I was just looking for a rule of thumb, not a software law! ;-)
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1996-08-14 0:00 Three releases and rewrite? Scott McCoy
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Dr. Richard Botting
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Scott McCoy [this message]
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