Comments on: Beta Is Dead http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090120/beta-is-dead/ from other Web sites Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:42:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mac Beach http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090120/beta-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-1242 Mac Beach Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:51:57 +0000 http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=7736#comment-1242 I'll comment here rather than on the target site, but it should be mentioned that the company first to blow the term beta totally into a new dimension was ICQ (I think that was both company and product name). Prior to being acquired by AOL I don't think they ever produced a non-beta version of their primary product. The distinction never seemed to bother users too much. One should expect that if you are ever going to provide an "enterprise" version of your product you would dropped the beta designation. Google I think has done that with the Google Apps suite. I’ll comment here rather than on the target site, but it should be mentioned that the company first to blow the term beta totally into a new dimension was ICQ (I think that was both company and product name).

Prior to being acquired by AOL I don’t think they ever produced a non-beta version of their primary product.

The distinction never seemed to bother users too much.

One should expect that if you are ever going to provide an “enterprise” version of your product you would dropped the beta designation. Google I think has done that with the Google Apps suite.

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