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From: smccoy@hisd.harris.com (Scott McCoy)
Subject: Re: Three releases and rewrite?
Date: 1996/08/17
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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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