> From: Mike Street > From a personal point of view, I can't understand why people want to > run the latest version of Windows and then want to install a version of > jBASE which may be 8 - 10 years old.
People try to make decisions which eliminate or at least minimize pain. Upgrading an OS can be painful. People consider themselves "forced" into new operating systems when new hardware comes pre-installed with it. Of course we know that's not true, but then it's just another kind of pain to get a new system wipe the hard drive and install a more comfortable OS. Better stated, we're being "forced" to choose which pain we're going to endure from a short list of pain sources. Just because someone takes the time to embrace a new OS it doesn't mean they want the "double whammy" of trying to work with new applications as well. It's doubly painful to try to diagnose new issues with a new database when you're struggling to understand how the underlying OS works. My personal preference is to upgrade the OS in a separate environment, load applications one by one, do upgrades one by one, and address each issue as I'm ready for it. I can't take the time from my business, clients, family, and personal development projects to endure all of the pain that others are inflicting on me all at once. When a VAR upgrades his internal systems to the very latest, it's possible that he will then be unable to support end-users who are still on prior releases. The solution is to have more hardware, or to use virtual environments to support whatever is in the field. There is more "pain" with both of those solutions in terms of cost and time. To minimize that pain, it helps to run the same release that end-users have on the newer platforms, until we can get the end-users up to current releases. Ideally it helps if we can run two versions of software simultaneously on the same system. While the .NET Framework was designed to make this possible, most upline developers don't write their code to allow it, so the rest of us need to suffer with painful choices about which version we need the most. You can't compare the availability of a new software release with its perceived value in the field. Software comes from Engineering people. The desire to use the software is generated by Marketing. Why don't people run the latest version of some software? Perhaps they don't see the value yet. When jBase v4 came out a lot of people held onto v3. Now v5 is out and a lot of people are still on v3 and 4. People won't upgrade unless the rewards for doing so outweigh the pain of trying to host the old release on a new OS. That's why. T -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jBASE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
