Alpha Test Version: Too buggy to be released to the paying public. Beta Test Version: Still too buggy to be released. Release Version: Alternate pronunciation of "Beta Test Version". Version 1.0: Buggier than Maine in June; eats data. Version 1.1: Eats data only occasionally; upgrade is free, to avoid litigation by disgruntled users of Version 1.0. Version 2.0: The version originally planned as the first release, except for a couple of data-eating bugs that just won't seem to go away; no free upgrades or the company would go bankrupt. Version 3.0: The revision in the works when the company goes bankrupt. (from http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/software.terms.html) :-) Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | THE OPEN LAB | | Open Source Bioinformatics | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+