Pavel Cisar wrote: >> Pavel Cisar wrote: >>> >>b) If we will announce the removal of dialect 1 support now, users of >>> >>dialect 1 planning to switch to FB 3.0 will have at least 1.5 years to >>> >>adapt their applications (for early adoption) and about 5-7 years as >>> >>final deadline (when support of last FB version having dialect 1 would >>> >>be discontinued by*project*). IMHO plenty of time. >> > >> >One would think so - but I'm still running systems first installed in the >> >late >> >90's;) They work just fine still and the customers will not let me change >> >them. >> >The current schemas are still compatible with the data from the last >> >century.
> But the important question here is whether you plan to switch these > systems to run on FB 3.0 or not? If you plan to do that and they're > actually "untouchable", what benefit you expect from the transition to > FB 3.0? I was just point out that 5-7 years is not such a long time these days. Some of the machines are stuck with W2k so they are 'frozen' and while replacing hardware IS becoming a problem, I can probably keep them going another 10 years. We will have to address a move at some point but HOPEFULLY office refits will dictate that before the software does :) The new hardware creates reports that used to be a half hour job in seconds ... so there is little incentive to spend too much time moving stuff over. Even on the FB2.5 sites running 50+ users I'm not seeing more than perhaps 20 minutes 'work' in 24 hours of 'idle' time. All this used to run on a '286' so was any need to 'upgrade' at all? The 'job' has not changed in now coming on 20 years. How we do it has changed, and what is reported changes, but at the end of the day is getting a web page up in 3 seconds rather than 4 a productivity advantage? You still have to talk to the client and type in data. A one hour interview results in a few seconds of data to save. Oh for the days when I NEED a networked database ... Perhaps I'll start earning some money as well :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel