Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: It's off until first half of '91 Message-ID: <1990Sep28.132604.25554@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 28 Sep 90 13:26:04 GMT References: <0093D408.262D5B40@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> <1542@camex.COM> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 23 In article <1542@camex.COM> kent@camex.com (Kent Borg) writes: >Have you never noticed that it is hard to know when software will be >finished? They probably estimated when they honestly thought it would >be, then tossed in some fudge, and told us the adjusted date. While I, too understand how hard it is to estimate completion dates, there is another scenario that could occur here. The "they" who estimate the the completion date and the "they" who make the announcements are two very different sets of people. (When the techies make announcements, they get FIRED, no?) Cynic that I am, I can imagine Apple software engineers telling marketing that System 7 won't be ready until 91, and Marketing announcing 90 instead, deliberately to string us along. [I'm not saying this IS what happened, just that it MIGHT be what happened.] Why? Isn't it horrible PR to let dates slip? Yes; but it's also horrible PR to say, "We won't solve those problems for another two years." -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner