Title: RE: very very OT: New features of that other software app.....
It's not "illegal", as in go-to-jail, to talk about unreleased or
future products, but there are new and excessively complicated
rules and processes with regards to these matters. The details are
not important. Anyway, the team is dying to talk about
the cool new things they're working on, however even without all of that
we have enough experience now to know we must wait until
everything is 'locked down' and guaranteed to ship, at which time
there is - again, by experience - still months of testing. Personally,
I have a couple of projects that came out differently, or much later
than expected, much to my chagrin. People also have done
innovative things we didn't see coming and had a huge impact. So
definitely there are a number of excellent reasons to not get
caught up in the siggraph announcement season, although
as a user of other products I of course sympathize how this
can be frustrating.
-----Original Message-----
From: Heath Aiken
<rant>
I'm not buying this law until I see it in writing... Working at a publicly
traded company, and being an investor myself (albeit small time investor),
and also being beat over the head with the big rubber **** called Sarbanes
Oxley all day long, I have heard nothing of this law.
As it relates to Softimage, it doesn't really matter. They'll announce new
products when they decide to (or when they feel they can). The thing that
bugs me is that someone mentioned this "rule/law", and all of the sudden
it's conventional wisdom. Everyone is repeating it like it is truth when no
proof has been shown. </rant>
- BTW, this isn't directed at anyone specific... Just a general rant.
On 8/3/06, Bernard Lebel <3dbernard(at)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well look, everyone from Softimage I spoke to at Siggraph have told me
> about this law. It might be just a trick to calm down rumors, however
> they really insisted about its implications.
