On Nov 16, 2015, at 6:33 AM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Understood. I totally get that there are valid reasons to retain old > versions of Java for some very specific use cases. But Reader/Acrobat? > Chrome? And heaven forbid, Flash? > #########
I worked with a medical device company a few years ago that was very specific about the Adobe Reader version. They have very complex QA around any changes to the processes of any kind. Rules come from the FDA, Legal Department and lots of other strangeness that It cannot, and should not, control. It seems that at one point the PDF documents that were generated by some other process did not display properly when looked at by the newest version ##.### of Adobe but were perfect when using version YY.YYY since opening these documents was required for each device as it came from assembly (had testing results) we could not use the latest versions. Added to that ANY change at any point in the process required a complete end-to-end revalidation\certification that was a very detailed process. So we stayed with the old versions and moved on. My last contact was 5 years later and they still had not been able to change. What they had worked and there was no motivation to upgrade for the sake of being “new and shiny”
