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 :)

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