ONLamp: A Version By Any Other Name

“Product versioning is a matter that lies in the grey area
between marketing and R&D. Lets take Java for example (I like
Java that is why I use it as an example). On one hand marketing
people think that calling a product ‘5.0 code name Tiger’ would be
much better than calling it 1.5 (and don’t even think about
something like 1.5.0_04-b05). On the other hand, R&D people,
though really fond of Tigers, would prefer to see ‘1.5.0_04-b05’ as
the version name. This version name provides R&D with the
information they require such as the knowledge that a certain bug
was fixed in this version. I think that is why SUN markets JAVA as
‘J2SE 5.0 tiger’ but when I run ‘java –version’ on my computer I
get ‘java version 1.5.0_04-b05…'”

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