YankeeJim:
jbenny11: in the immortall words of judge smails, WELL WERE WAITING
.....speculated that something may have caused a last minute delay in the release of Oakmont. It happened with SA and 2 days later a 30 minute downtime update produced the course. Makes sense to me and jives with jb's thought.
I'll just go play pong on the intellivision............... ;-)
FROM MY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
(Disclaimer: Anyone who has a software development background will be familiar with what I describe - in a general way it is usually pretty similar to this - though variations DO exist if it is Mainframe, Midrange, Web environment and so forth - the nuts and bots generally apply)
With any software release...the actual "Implementation" is often the fastest part - in a 4 hour "window" probably from something as simple as the Development/Implementation Team (or programmer) from hitting a "click" someplace to bring it live on the "Production" Server(s) that we all play on from the "Test" server up to and including a more "manual" process that might involve a series of this to bring various "pieces" to life....but in a 4 Hour Implementation window, it would be RARE that the actual code rollout would consume more than 15-30 minutes.
THE REST OF THE TIME IS ALMOST ALL TESTING. Is it "behaving" the same way in the PRODUCTION environment (that we all PLAY ON) as it behaved on the TESTING server. Even though TESTING environments are MEANT TO replicate the "live"/public environment, there ARE invariably differences...and sometimes software does NOT behave exactly the same and MIGHT need some minor tweaking - or rarely something major did not work.
In MANY cases - and this MIGHT be true with WGT - the software MMAY have been tested in the Production environemnt ALREADY to avoid what I described above. It MIGHT be sitting there "parallel" and alongside all our other courses, and they have simply NOT "clicked it over" yet to activate the linkss and such that would give us access. THIS IS SPECUALTION but mostly intended to give a "window" into the sort of thing that goes on with software.
DO NOT ANYBODY bother to get wise ideas about trying to "find" it (I know nothing and have no idea if it is actually there) - has anyone seen WGT's URLs? most of them include a string of characters SOMETHING LIKE 1fg4r5ewdprgf-56cv5e6d3r6t-cvjboefer21sd-dfe6ert - if you have a lifetime to waste trying to guess at that sort of stuff - well that is your business - but if you were to hit it - you should also probably be buying Lottery tickets. LOL
THIS MIGHT HAVE OCCURRED.
Bottom line is WGT will let us have it WHEN THEY ARE READY and WHEN IT IS FUNCTIONING.
Regards, AC