On 10/12/2011 5:08 AM, Tony Thigpen wrote:
Our customers base is VSE. We have customers that are running (in production) old levels back as far as VSE 2.1. We have customers running hardware as far back as MP2000 boxes. Until last year, we actually had a VSE 1.4 customer. When you consider the fact that some of our customers are running non-Y2K compliant systems, it is a little scary! But, they keep sending in the checks. :-)
We all have back-level customers. The real question is whether those customers--who won't upgrade their hardware and/or install new releases of the operating system--are upgrading to the latest releases of our software. When I looked at this a few years back, the answer was a resounding "No". Back-level customers were back-level on everything. And, when and if they did upgrade, they tended to upgrade everything at the same time. As long as we continue to support the highest release of our software that did not require newer instructions, the back-level customers continue to get what they pay for (support for their current release and access to new releases should they ever choose to upgrade) and we can develop the latest releases using newer hardware facilities. [Aside: No facility in recent memory has been more liberating to our programmers than the relative-immediate facility.] -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 [email protected] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
