[A6] MIX Mode --- was (SoundDiver and the a6

[Michael E. Caloroso]

David Evans wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 04:50:01PM -0000, Richard wrote:
> 
>>I'm down with that. The A6 only exists at all by some freak of capitalism  -
>>basically letting a bunch of programmers go mental and bankrupt the company
>>in the process (perhaps it wasn't really like that, but its a nice
>>story...).
> 
>   Errrr...is it generally accepted that the A6 is what broke Alesis?

That's not true.

Somewhere in the archives Mike Peake and others at Alesis confirm that 
the Andromeda had NOTHING to do with Alesis's financial troubles.

With fifteen years of software development in my belt and having been on 
the beta test team, I can verify that the development process was VERY 
organized and efficient, certainly not haphazard in the least.  I've 
been on my share of "Dilbert" project teams, and this was not one of them.

Case of point: the original OS development team was a separate company 
called Extreme Measures, not Alesis.  After Alesis took over OS 
development, they corrected some rather glaring inefficiencies in the OS.

MC