Wake up Revolution

[Richmond Mathewson]

Bill Marriott wrote:
> < snip >
>
> Richmond wrote:
>
>> There is a school of thought that RunRev have tried to expand the
>> capabilities of Revolution rather too
>> rapidly, without taking care of some 'nuts-and-bolts' glitches that have
>> been around for some time.
>
> Perhaps. But as someone who wrote just over three years ago that 
> "Quality is Job #1," I have to disagree with this school. We've come a 
> long, long way. RunRev spent more than a year and a half working on 
> the free-for-almost-everyone Rev 2.9, which addressed hundreds of 
> those issues, re-architected tons of internals, and brought the Linux 
> edition up to speed with the other platforms. The result was a 
> measurable, marked improvement in quality, and a more robust platform 
> that has enabled much-needed "nuts-and-bolts" enhancements since then: 
> the new tabbed script editor (3.0); the data grid and behaviors (3.5); 
> and the Web plugin (4.0). All of which have been delivered on a 
> predictable schedule with more far more external testing -- both in 
> terms of number of users and length of testing -- than prior versions. 
> At the same time, we have halved the retail price of the product and 
> even introduced the free and highly capable revMedia edition while 
> growing in profitability during a time of global economic uncertainty. 
> We still have a ways to go. I realize that we often don't report 
> status in a timely way in the RQCC, and not all the reports we want to 
> have been fixed. There will always be issues with software; the key is 
> choosing the right battles. Overall, we must be doing something right.

Thank you, Bill, for this extremely comprehensive and well thought-out 
reply!

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.