Re: requirements sub-group draft

From: Scott Brim (swb@employees.org)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2001 - 10:51:40 EST


On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 10:24:09AM -0500, Kastenholz, Frank wrote:
> That said, a personal observation is that the probability of
> a new architecture/system being deployed is inversely proportional
> to the amount of any required changes to end-systems. In fact, the
> probability may well be a step function -- if you have 0.000 changes
> the probability of successful deployment is 10%, if you have >0.000
> required changes, the probability of successful deployment goes to
> 0.0000% :-(

It was recently pointed out to me that with CVS and Windows Update (and
possibly an equivalent for Macs?) out there, changing the end systems
just isn't much of an issue anymore.



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