Date:         Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:05:51 -0400
Reply-To:     S David Riba <dave@JADETEK.COM>
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From:         S David Riba <dave@JADETEK.COM>
Subject:      Re: V7 due fall 98
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According to what was said at the Futures Forum at SESUG
this week, Version 7 is almost ready to ship.  However, it
will not be widely distributed.  Approximately 100 sites will
receive the V7 shipment starting roughly in October (I believe).
Mass ship of V7 will start in January.  Shipment of V7 will be made
only to those sites that request it, in the order that requests
are received.  This is because SI believes that most sites
are heavily involved in Y2k issues, and any mass shipment
of a software update will likely sit on the shelves instead of
being installed.  Rather than go thru the effort to cut and
distribute updates for every site, SI will only send an update
to Version 7 to those sites that intend on using it.
 
FWIW, Version 8 is currently in the works and will probably
follow V7 in fairly short order (my guess - about a year).
V8 is intended to clean up any problems in V7, and to bring
various V6 modules up to a V7 level (ie some things like
Enterprise Miner and Jazz Front <according to my limited
understanding> will still be given a Version 6 level even
though Version 7 is imminent.  Version 8 will bring all these
modules to the same rev level.
 
This is sketchy, and probably has some inaccuracies, but
that is my understanding based on the conversations at
SESUG this week.  Hope it helps.
 
Dave
 
BTW, stay tuned for Version 9 !
 
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