Shoutbox

oh yeah!
still i have no idea what the counting thing commes from.
ah well.

Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, ... Greek alphabet
See: http://www.fact-index.com/s/so/software_testing.html

oh kool! thus the word Alphabet (AlphaBet-a)

alpha is pre-release, it hasn't got all features.
beta should have all features, but is not yet proven stable
RC are pre-finals, should have only a few bugs not worked out
finals are... finals