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  • Subject: Re[2]: Legacy code.
  • From: Buck Calabro <mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:28:18 -0400

Dean,

<<snip>>
>>  direction is to provide a more generic product.  This new product is
>>  written
>>  using Synon 2/E, and is Y2K compliant.  Some customers will migrate to the
>>  new product; the rest will need Y2K mods.  They're working out the
>>  economics
>>  now.  We're not certain how long we can let them wait to decide....
>
>Ahhh, a strategy emerges!  Inform your customers of the discount that they
>will receive from the purchase of your new product, and of the premium they
>will pay for maintenance if they remain behind your current product release
>level (hey, it's good enough for IBM!).  I assume that the product was
>written in Synon in order to reduce maintenance time, so customers NOT on the
>Synon version will have to pay a price..

We're working on it!
We know for a fact that we will still have some customers using the
existing (heavily customised RPG) software.  The new folks will
need to become familiar with the old software in order to be able
to maintain it, but if we can teach them to write good code, then
their effectiveness will go up quicker than if they continue to use
the old stuff as a model for new work.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft, Rensselaer, NY

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