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Re: slowing down point releases

On 31 Jul 1997, Guy Maor wrote:

> Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
> 
> > I have, however, been educated recently to the non-technical
> > difficulties that Debian has created for itself in these potential
> > marketplaces. They don't seem to be very hard to fix and we don't
> > have to compromise quality to do so.
> 
> So why not tell us?
> 
<g> I thought I had? The subject line for this thread points to the
"perceived" problem. This is all about "time to market" realities that
impact sale-ablility of the delivered product.

The distributor and the retailer have a 4 to 6 week delay in distribution
actions. If we were actually delivering major releases in the 3 month time
window we always hope to target, this gives the marketplace less then two
months to "clear" a profit on their product. The point releases come much
too rapidly for this distribution system and will be a killer to that
business if the retailer returns the product because there are more recent
and up-to-date products available on other media. (like the internet)

I agree that this is a perception problem, but then, most marketing
problems have more to do with perception than with facts. Win-95 should be
adequate proof of that.



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