Yes, I haven't asked them yet whether they have purchased any new equipment, and to warn them that if they haven't chances are none of these new programs will even work. I agree that hardware upgrade needs to be priority #1 for this client. They remain thrilled with the old 4.5 system and are reluctant to switch to a different program. A consultant friend of mine who lives near them stopped by and showed them some examples of new RBase programming and the client said he really loved what he saw. So maybe the seeds are planted ....
If they decide to stick with 4.5 and not spend any money, it will be very difficult for me to go back to supporting this ancient app. Actually I'm not sure I can remotely support it; back when I last worked with them we were using the DOS version of Carbon Copy over a dialup -- I would have to at least see if they can install PCAnywhere on their hardware, hopefully over an internet connection. Have any consultants out there actually refused to support these old apps? Or do I do it so that I can be there in case they decide to upgrade down the road? I have no active clients who are "older" than 6.5 and it would be very hard to get excited spending my valuable time working on a 4.5 app when so far there's no shortage of working on exciting new apps. Karen > Karen, and what are they planning on spending for these other software > programs? Will their existing hardware support them? > > As the consultant, perhaps a presentation on everything from the state of > their current hardware to total integration needs to be shared with the > customer. If the complete funding isn't available, some projects shouldn't > be > started and it sounds like hardware needs to be part of the upgrade plan. > > Sorry, I don't have any information on those programs >
