Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 05:44:27 03/27/01
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On March 26, 2001 at 06:09:35, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>On March 24, 2001 at 19:35:35, Sune Larsson wrote:
>
>>On March 24, 2001 at 17:47:14, Richard Heldmann wrote:
>>
>>>(imho):
>>>Chessbase provides the best chess engines at a very affordable price.
>>>Chessbase provides the best interface for chess engines.
>>>Chessbase is the standard by which all others are judged.
>>>
>>>Richard Heldmann
>>
>> And for all of you that still have Chessbase 7, I'm happy to announce
>> that there is a new upgrade to download at the CB site. It's a bug fix
>> for the "killing doubles" feature, making it at least equal to the one
>> in CB8. Hm...anyhow it *should* be such an upgrade by now, since
>> Mattias Wuellenweber promised (in personal E-mails) that this bugfix
>> would be up for download *before* last Christmas. According to Wuellenweber
>> it was an easy fix to copy the code from CB8 to CB7.
>>
>> I don't trust people that lie to me in personal E-mails.
>
>Come on, that's not a lie. It's the usual business in software development. You
>have very tough delivery dates and you have to fight hard to stick to these.
>Nevertheless, you don't succeed always.
1)In the beginning of december 2000 I got E-mails from Mattias Wuellenweber
about the severe bugs in the "killing doubles" function of CB7. Very nice
and friendly mails, assuring me that a) this code had been rewritten for
CB8 and the KD function now was much better, b) that it was very easy
to transform this new code into an upgrade for CB7, c) which would be
done in about 1-2 weeks (counted from beginning of dec-00). These mails
came after a very heavy critic against the KD function in CB7.
2)Now after 16 weeks nothing has happened. I'm sorry Uli, but since these
mails were directed personally to me, I consider MW:s words as a lie.
You think of them as "the usual business in software development".
Maybe even as marketing strategy?! Might be so, because it had some effect.
I'm part of a mailinglist with database-people (for whom "killing doubles"
is an important tool), and since nothing happened we decided to shift
from CB to CA6, which has now just arrived. No big deal for CB, I'm sure,
since we are just a bit below 100 people, with databasing as hobby.
Conclusion: We don't care anymore about the promised upgrade for CB7.
It simply doesn't matter since we switched to CA6. I just
feel a bit personally cheated, that's all.
Sune
>
>I think that you are a bit too harsh considering such delay being a lie.
>
>One word to the "evil empire" nonsense (not directed to you personally). I know
>a few chess base employees personally from a collaboration with them, in
>particular Mathias Feist and also a bit Matthias Wuellenweber. And I can say
>that it's really fun working with them. I have experienced them as are very
>polite and helpful gentlemen. They are just nice persons.
>
>AFAIK, CB is operating rather successful; that's not evil, isn't it ?
>
>Uli
>
>
>>
>> Silence is now the only thing we get from CB concerning the above.
>> The silence of shame, perhaps.
>>
>> Sune Larsson
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