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latch on Nov 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: MongoDB 2.0 Should Have Been 1.0

I'm not a big fan of having version numbers have some type of special meaning. To me, your post implies that there's a line in the sand at some magic version number with respect to due-diligence (on everyone's part). Gmail was in "beta" for years...it didn't mean anything. I understand that wiki and history disagrees with me, but it's still how I feel.

Oh, and there's a chance that yesterday's drama was a hoax: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3205573

Edit:

Associating special meaning with these things has always been "gamed". Access went from 2 to 7. Heck, office went from 97 to 2000!

leif on Nov 7, 2011 | [–]

The article appears to consider the version number issue symptomatic of a deeper mismanagement of expectations by MongoDB marketing.

drm237 on Nov 7, 2011 | [–]

There's a difference between product names for marketing and version numbers used in development.

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