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Re: Shipping?
Dear Jim and others waiting patiently for Executor 1.2.1,
Approximately 500 copies of Executor 1.2.1 will be going to the mail
on Monday. That shipment includes all the free updates and all the
backorders to dealers around the world. I apologize for the delay
which I explain below.
Our intention was to have Executor shipping on the 14th of September.
That would have given us a week to get copies to our distributers
listed in our ad in the current, Winter 1992, NeXTWORLD.
As you know, Executor 1.2.1 is the first version of Executor to come
with a nice manual/binder/slipcase. We've had the binders and the
slipcases for some time. We ran into three separate problems
producing the manuals.
The first problem is that even though we discussed exactly what we
were doing with our local (Macintosh based) printer, there was some
last minute confusion that delayed the Lino output by two business
days. Hence the release date moves to the 16th of September.
The second problem is that the printer took a week longer to get our
manuals done than we expected. The release date now moves to the
23rd of September.
The 23rd came and I personally went over to pick up our manuals only
to find that they had been run on the wrong type of paper (bond
instead of glossy) and that insufficient attention to detail had been
paid when operating some of the collating machines and there were
holes on some of the pages of each of our manuals. We refused the
manuals on the paper mix-up alone, but even barring that the quality
was not acceptable either. At this point we consider shipping
Executor 1.2.1 disks now and send the manuals later.
However, after reviewing the packaging concerns (using a 2.5" x 6" x
9" box to send a floppy is "inefficient" to say the least) and
discussing the situation with the printer, we've come down with a
firm date of this coming Monday for them to deliver the guts of our
manual (they actually said it would be today, Friday or Monday, but
I'm going to assume the worst).
That was the bad news. The good news is that we're getting a *lot*
of interest from our ad in NeXTWORLD. This will directly translate
into more dollars for more engineers. It will also indirectly turn
into more software for us to test since we credibly can ask ISV's to
send a free copy of their software for us so that we can test it and
advertise it as working with Executor 1.2.1 if it does or fix some
incompatibilities and have it working for Executor 1.3.
Thank you for all the support you've given us so far. We're really
starting to take off and we greatly appreciate the people who
purchased from us when word-of-mouth was our sole advertising.
--Cliff