> >Why would anyone go to that amount of trouble when there's > >no revenue in it anyway? Charity? > > They *do* spend money in the form of annual maintenance fees > to ISVs.
Well perhaps, although I am not sure even that is true. I am fairly sure its not true of our customers but there are bound to be exceptions. In any case, "maintenance" implies an existing product version. I have no dispute with the idea of keeping existing products compatible with whatever level of system they were originally designed for, but I wouldn't give their "needs" a moment's consideration when designing new software. I have no sympathy for back level systems. IMO its not worth the effort. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
