Re: [SAGE] Pointers for developing needs assessment for enterprisemessaging?

[Strata Rose Chalup <strata@virtual.net>]

110% correct, and then some.

In specific, Dec 31 1999 was the last day that Netscape or iPlanet
customers licensed for the calendar software could perform new
installs, including upgrades, of any Netscape Calendar 3.x or 4.x
version.  Those were all CS&T licensed versions.  The 5.x version
is an entirely new codebased developed in-house, and began shipping
(in alpha, I believe) in August of 2000.

Imagine the excitement of managing a project where a large client
has evaluated the CS&T-licensed version of "Netscape Calendar" and
finds its deployment schedule occurring AFTER Dec 31 1999 but BEFORE
the Netscape-authored version was shipping.  Now imagine that the
initial release of the 5.x product is missing some features critical
to the large client's choice in the evaluation.  Whee!

It will have to stay imagination, of course, since anyone involved
would have been NDA'd out the wazoo.  But I'd imagine it was a pretty
rough ride for a number of folks.  I hear the current Netscape version
has matured fairly tolerably.  

"Turned you into a newt?!"
"I got bettah."

cheers,
SRC


Jennifer Davis wrote:

> Actually you have this backwards.  Netscape licensed CS&T's calendar
> software CorporateTime for a long time, and then went off on their own
> tangent in the last couple years.  Netscape's calendar iplanet is no
> longer anything to do with Steltor.  The calendar that Netscape used to
> sell is a very old version of the CorporateTime product.

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