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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 09:23:45 MST
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: 4.02 recall?
              9 Oct 1992 08:12:02 PDT from <turitz@SFSUVAX1.SFSU.EDU>

On Fri, 9 Oct 1992 08:12:02 PDT Mitch Turitz said:
>I thought I saw a message within the last week something about version
>4.02 being recalled?  I deleted the message and I don't remember now
>what it said.   Can anyone either send it to me or confirm what the
>story is?  As I remember it was something along the lines of "4.02 is
>being recalled and will NOT be replaced.  Geac will just wait until 5.0
>is released" or something to that effect.  As I remember this message
>was not posted from someone at Geac.

   I have not seen anything like that, but haven't searched the archives.
This is the latest I know.  I do NOT work for Geac, but did meet with them
for two days in Dallas a few weeks ago.  Will report more on that meeting
as soon as get caught up with a few other things.
   This is all according to my best knowledge and understanding, and
subject to correction or revision by those who know more.
   1)  4.02 has been installed at several sites:  Coastal Plain, Boise State,
San FRancisco State, Oregon State, maybe one or two others.
   2)  Other sites are presumably all on 3.0.
   3)  No more installations of 4.02 will be made until some problems are
cleaned up, and that cleaned up version will be called something else,
perhaps 4.5, which I'll call it for now.
   4)  Advance 4.5 will be out ASAP, theoretically by Christmas.
   5)  Changing from 4.0 to 4.5 will be a small change and will not bring
any big problems.   Changing from 3.0 to 4.5 will require reindexing, etc,
same as it did for those of us on 4.0, which means being down for a couple
days or so....all depending on your machine, database size, etc.
   6)  They are working on 5.0 also, which should be out in spring or
summer of 93.
   7)  The cycle for future releases will be only ONE release per YEAR,
and on a regular annual cycle, starting with 6.0 a year after 5.0.
Anything between full numbered releases will be just minor fixes or
patches that may be needed.
   8)  Geac is working VERY hard on getting all customers onto the same
version of code, and is trying to get away from the still-all-too-common
business of 'this works like this for us, but not for them' that we've
all suffered with.  This does not mean there won't be local options, but
that the options/differences will be because YOU and I chose them from
a standard set of options that are built into the software.

>will also have their versions recalled?  and if so, what do we do in the
>meantime?

   I'm guessing that this confusion came about because of some recent
discussions about the RECALL function.....not because of recalling
the software.   4.02 ain't perfect, but I'd sure not want to, or allow,
us to go backwards to 3.0.

   dan

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