Author: José Carlos
Date: 05:22:37 03/07/02
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On March 07, 2002 at 07:55:26, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On March 07, 2002 at 07:05:15, Marc van Hal wrote: > >>Why are some programers so secret about the release dates of their programs? >>Maybe the clients will stop getting intrest about it. >>Loosing contact and only know it is out when it is already a longtime on the >>market. >>I would not call that a good way of marketing. >>Regards Marc > >Because like in other businesses too, a lot can happen between now and the >mentioned release date. And if a company doesn't sell their product on the date >they said, they will get even more angry customers. > >Sargon A proffessional programmer _must_ be able to say when he's gonna finish a program. I write programs for a living and there's no way a company accepts "I don't know when it'll be ready" as an answer. You have to say when and, if you get delayed, you have a money penalty for it. But this is a different issue. This is _companies_ not saying to the customers when there'll be a new version of a program. There's no contract between, for example, Chessbase and the people who are wating for Fritz 8 to buy it, so Chessbase doesn't even need to release a Fritz 8. On the other hand, saying dates and releasing the versions on time helps selling more. José C.
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