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re: "so wait for at least a year, if not longer for a patch ..."
WE'VE ALREADY WAITED A WHOLE YEAR !!!!!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence Chan [mailto:stnahc@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 6:49 PM
> To: Wayne Mathews; =omega list
> Subject: Re: TS2000 sp6
>
>
>
> The programmer cost estimate is sort of lower than
> the real world prices :) because the 3 contract
> programmers would know nothing about Ts2k and
> they need time to learn what the program does and
> then reproduce the bugs before they can be fixed.
>
> IF the cost is $70k per programmer per yr x 3
> - it also implies it will take 1 yr to get the
> fixes to the market :)
> - if more porgrammers are hired, the less productive
> per programmer, a well-known fact in software
> development.
>
> AND, I do not believe there are 10k registered
> active TS2k users at all.
>
> so wait for at least a year, if not longer :)
> for a patch ...
>
> and the old saying in software industry,
> "every new programmer adding new code to a program
> will introduce new bugs, more new bugs."
>
> -Lawrence
>
> --- Wayne Mathews <wayne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Omega not having issued sp6 to fix the (last)
> > remaining bugs in TS2000
> > must be a result of putting all their programmers on
> > to TS Pro. And not
> > having enough money to hire any extra ones to
> > correct the remaining bug
> > issues in TS2000.
> >
> > Let see, 3 programmers at $70,000 per year is
> > $210,000 (no health or
> > other benefits as they would be contract workers for
> > this one time and
> > last event). There must be at least 10,000 (20,000?)
> > copies of TS2000 in
> > use. That would be a cost of $21 per copy. (3
> > programmers should be able
> > to fix the bugs in TS2000 in 6 months).
> >
> > I, for one, an so tied of the crippled form of
> > TS2000 that I am willing
> > to pay $20 (even $100) for a sp6 that fixes the
> > remaining identified
> > bugs. I know, service packages are free because they
> > give only what was
> > suppose to be there in the first place but if this
> > is the only way to
> > get sp6 I am willing to pay for it.
> >
> > I know this is a bad precedent, but this should be
> > the last service pack
> > for TS2000 and this looks like the only way it will
> > happen.
> >
>
>
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> Lawrence Chan http://www.tickquest.com
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