Re: Version Numbering

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 04:41:20PM -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:48 PM, David E. Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Aug 20, 2010, at 11:47 AM, David Fetter wrote:
> >
> >> The current system give people the completely false impression
> >> that 7.0 and 7.4 are somehow similar.
> >
> > On what planet?
>
> Look at other DBMSes:
> Oracle: 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g
> Informix 9, 10, 11
> MS SQL Server 7, 2000, 2005, 2008
>
> note the lack of dotes (and even if they actually have dots, those
> are minor versions).

Some people dote on dots.

> is not only confusing but make people think we are somehow behind
> the others... someone actually told me that Oracle is in version 11
> we only in version 8 so Oracle should have more features... no that
> i follow that reasoning but...

"This one goes up to 11!" ;)

Cheers,
David.
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