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FreeBSD 4.6 Release Delayed

Posted by michael on from the when-it's-ready dept.

Dan writes "Bruce A. Mah from the FreeBSD Release Engineering team announced that due to some late-breaking issues, 4.6 will be released about a week later than originally planned."

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  1. This happens in industry, too by Rommel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to work at VERITAS Software. They routinely delayed release dates on products if quality wasn't good enough.

    There is a problem with this, though. Customers made business plans based upon planned release dates. When those release dates slipped, the customer's plans were upset. This could leave them in awkward situations because they couldn't do certain things without features present in newer versions of the software. As a consequence, we always dreaded a slipping of the release date because it would provoke great annoyance from the customers.

    Customers want it right and on-time. If they have to pick between those two, they will select to have it right, but will not be happy about it!