Some “Testers”
I think Computer World’s headline writers need to learn a little more about what the word means when they say “Testers give high marks to new features in SQL Server upgrade“:
A conference being held in Denver this week by the Professional Association for SQL Server user group will provide a forum for the biggest public unveiling to date of Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server 2008 database.
But as many as 20,000 users have already been testing the upcoming software, which is scheduled for release by next June. And their reactions, detailed in interviews or via blog postings, have been mostly positive thus far.
For instance, David Smith, CIO at ServiceU Corp. in Cordova, Tenn., said that SQL Server 2008 has improvements in “hundreds of areas. It’s exactly what I need.”
Son, that’s executives at customer companies, who are not exactly the sort of people who should be allowed to pass judgment on software, especially basing that judgment on a demo.
Real testers who give high marks to anything haven’t tested it enough.
