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By mostlyharmless
via joelonsoftware.com
Published: Mar 12 2008 / 07:43

Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it.
The Oracle RDBMS has been around for 22 years now. Windows NT development started 12 years ago. Microsoft Word is positively long in the tooth; I remember seeing Word 1.0 for DOS in high school
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alpeb replied ago:

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Another must read from joelonsoftware. That chart is priceless.,

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Ryan Ginstrom replied ago:

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Oldie but goodie

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reido56 replied ago:

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The example of Mozilla for mistake 5, "We'll Ship It When It's Ready" syndrome, is pretty impressive in hindsight. Just count how many years it's been since this was written, and now Firefox has carved out a sizable browser share...

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Topnotch replied ago:

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And to think I beleived that I could write a killer app like Napster or BitTorrent and be rich in 6 months! Oh how naive! Dangit!

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