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ULTRA NEWS (Updated in real-time)
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ULTRA 11 has officially been delayed 
again.  We're now aiming for 04/15/10.
We apologize for these delays but they
are necessary in order for us to 
deliver the product of which we've 
been dreaming now for a decade.

ULTRA 11 is running about 30 times 
faster than ULTRA 10 during all types
of analysis and that's just one of 
many improvements that required an 
almost total rewrite of millions of
lines of code.

One major reason (out of many) for the
delay is the new reliability standard
to which we strive.  We consider this
standard to be "Near Military Spec".
Using automated testing code we've
written, we are resolving an amazing
number of minor bugs most of which 
would only effect <0.1% of users. But
if you happen to be that user, it 
matters.  In our opinion, if other 
commercial products used this level 
of error testing, they'd probably 
have hundreds of these types of errors
generated per hour of use. 
Our goal is zero.

Thank you very much for your patience
and understanding.
   
---------(11:06 AM 3/17/2010)----------
On 03/08/10 there was a hardware failure 
on the serverthat runs the ULTRAFS.COM 
website.  This caused the site to be 
down for about 24 hours over which we 
had no control because, like all small
business websites, a hosting company 
maintains this hardware.

It appears that after the hardware was 
repaired, they restored files from a 
backup.  Unfortunately, the ULTRA 10.32b
install files they restored were files 
that we were debugging and not the actual
release files.  Those files remained on 
the site until 03/17/10 at 11:00am.

This is exactly why we rarely do a 
broadcast notification when new versions 
are released.  If a large percentage of
our client base had downloaded these bad 
install files, it would have taken us 
weeks to recover and stopped all progress
on other projects like ULTRA 11.

---------(10:54 AM 1/26/2010)----------
In preparation for our ULTRA 11 release.
Melinda L. Brown has been hired to work 
at ULTRA on a full-time basis.  

Melinda a been assisting Steve Hunter
(founder of ULTRA) for many years handling
details of his non-ULTRA related business
projects. She is a proven talent who will
greatly improve the business end of ULTRA.  

She will now train to become an ULTRA 
expert exclusively.  She will soon begin 
to assist clients and once she's totally 
up-to-speed with all the details of the
business side of ULTRA, she'll hire/train
a PA to assist her further improving our
ability to support our software products.


---------(8:22 PM 1/26/2010)---------------
ULTRA Data upload is late because something
is wrong with my main source and today's
closing information is not yet available.
Tired of waiting so I'll use backup sources
and recheck the numbers tommorrow.

---------(11:00 AM 1/25/2010)--------------
* NEWS pages added to ULTRAFS.COM which will
  contain real-time ULTRA related news.

* LINKS to NEWS,DATA,SCHEDULE,FAQ,BUGS
  added to Client Page at ULTRAFS.COM.

---------(9:38 AM 1/25/2010)----------------
Our ULTRAFS.COM site performed a restore from 
the 01/21/10 backup for some reason which wrote
over our 01/22/10 udata.dat file. The correct
version of udata.dat has now been uploaded.

The ULTRATIMER.COM datadownloading site was not
affected.  

Clients are reminded that we have redundancy 
in our data downloading sites to handle this 
exact situation that will occur from time-to-time.
The site from which you download data is selectable
on the window where you tell the downloader which
file to download (usually udata.dat).


---------(11:50 PM 1/24/2010)-------------------
ULTRA 10.32a released for download.


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