What does the term "to ship" means in the Programming world?

I have to answer the following question: "Have you shipped a commercial or internal product?" in a Programming Skills Technical Questionnaire and I am not sure of what "shipped" means in this context. Can someone please give me a hint? It is very urgent. Thank you very much.

What does the term "to ship" means in the Programming world?
That means you have released a working product to customers. In this case, customers could be someone else in the same company if you wrote something for internal use.





I would not suspect they mean you did the actual shipping (i.e. stuffing and posting the box).





This is in opposition to work done for your own enjoyment or for class. The whole point of the question is that other people used your work (this includes you working on a team - most products are made by more than one person).
Reply:Good Question!!! Shipping a product is launching it. For example, anyone who works at microsoft and worked on the Vista OS, they all technically shipped the product when it was released.





Thanks,


Abdurrahman Qadan
Reply:It means have you released any code. (as your code gone out to be used in commercial or internal product)


I'm just guessing....

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