
334 CHAPTER 12 Software Support and Maintenance
commercial software applications that are releasing their updates at
slightly different periods. Each product organization can have their sep-
arate release plans, except when there are product linkages. For example,
if a new feature modification in the manufacturing application is related
to some area in the distribution application, then their respective
update/fix maintenance releases must match and be made available
simultaneously. The Update/Fix Maintenance Release 2 of Manufactur-
ing may be related to the Distribution application’s Update/Fix Mainte-
nance Release 1. Then these two maintenance releases ...