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>   If you have set a release date, then you have finalized development and
>   set up production, meaning you have a product with ready-made features.
>
> I've always seen release dates set well in advance of a product's
completion.

Maybe I should have pointed out that I was talking about Adobe.
I've worked in software companies setting release dates 1 year ahead
of time. And they met them.

> Usually the date wouldn't be given to resellers until the company was sure
> they could meet it; but publishing this date wouldn't mean that
development
> - and therefore a feature set - was complete.

There's a contradiction here. If not even the feature set is complete,
then there's no way Adobe could be sure to meet a release date!
Looking at how and when Adobe announces a FM release date, we can assume
development is finished (apart from perhaps bug fixing) and production
has been planned. The feature set (apart from details) has been set a
long time before that.

I'm not trying to reach a consensus here. I'm just giving my view of
how Adobe treats FM. Let's call it an "educated guess".


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/Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
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