The FP Room meeting for Wednesday is postponed...

[John Esak]

Hello all,

I just heard from Bud Henschen, who was prepared to speak in the room on
Wednesday. However, after learning from him that the new version is in the
final 6 or 8 weeks of completion, and speaking with several other people in
the FP Room. We all decided it would be better for Bud to hold the meeting a
couple weeks before the actual release date. Things would be more firmed up
then, and he will be able to speak more accurately about the new features,
release plans, etc. He enumerated for us the many things that are underway
now and it was agreed that the filePro community would be better served by
hearing hard and fast information closer to release than anything else.

We will plan the next meeting for mid September sometime... a fixed date
coming as soon as we can all coordinate our plans. I just wanted everyone to
know that Bud is not hiding from the community, but working hard to complete
things for the next release. He was willing to come and talk, but all of us
(who happened to be there...) thought it would be much more beneficial to
meet with him and FP Tech next month rather than now.

If I had to guess, I think that 10/01/05 is a pretty do-able date for the
release of 5.6, but we all have been there before with software from every
vendor, and even our own applications. No one wants to get caught in that
pitfall, but from the sound of things, it appears that the beginning of the
4th quarter is a very reasonable expectation. Hey, and that's only 6 or 8
weeks away.

I'll be sure to set the date in stone for Bud's second town meeting as soon
as possible.


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John Esak
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