Sherry Zedeck

Product development is really a cycle , says Sherry Zedeck , senior product marketing manager for NuMega Technologies Inc. , a testing tool vendor-based in Nashua , N.H..You've done the design , the coding , the debugging , but once you've released it you're back working on the next version , so it's not really ever final.That's where we're going , and I think users have to feel same way about software they develop..

An iterative way to buy software is through emerging software subscription plans being implemented by vendors like NuMega.While the practice of making patches and fixes available on vendor Web sites for download is common , software subscriptions are more proactive and frequently offer more than a traditional maintenance plan.