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On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Paul Robinson wrote:
> There is a reason for this. PHBs within enterprises understand "risk" in
> terms of product development and the impact short release cycles can
> have.
>....
> Paul Robinson


There is also deployment time. If you have thousands of computesr, you
won't get done installing a release by the time a new one is out.