Re: Is V7R1 catching on?

First off, thanks to everyone that responded - it was helpful (and hopeful) to see how many are at or soon to be going to V7R1.

Second, I agree with Evan's comment that there really ought to be something in a release to compel companies to upgrade to it. Frankly, it was hard for me to see that "something" in V6R1, but V7R1 has a couple of things.

For me the most compelling reason to go to V7R1 is the automatic encryption (go figure, huh?) capability that was enabled in the database with FieldProc. I sense that lots of companies have not encrypted their truly sensitive data (Credit Cards, SS#, etc.) because of the size and perceived complexity of inserting encryption into your application. FieldProc changes that because it allows us to insert encryption at the database level - reducing or in some case outright eliminating the need to make application changes - and instead have "automated encryption" take care of protecting the data.

For me, that's a big plus in the "upgrade to V7R1" column - at least for companies that have data to protect.

jte





On Feb 17, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Evan Harris wrote:

Hi Mark

I beg to differ. If there is stuff in the OS that can be taken
advantage off - like the PDF stuff - then it is a selling point. What
I'm saying is that there are not enough (virtually none) of these
features in there to sell the upgrade.

I'm not talking about those who have given up, I;m really speaking
about those that *will* fall off the upgrade path because the 6.1
object conversion adds enough additional cost and complexity without
any real additional benefits that are easily taken advantage of.


On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting
Inc. <mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No OS upgrade adds anything to a "Stable shop running a package and not much else". Not even a Windows or Linux upgrade. Problem is when you hardware gets so long in the tooth that reliability becomes a problem, you are probably so far behind the times that an upgrade is completely unsupported, and very hard to do. And you may have applications that can't be installed or upgraded on one machine or the other, or a multi-step upgrade is required. That kind of stuff is far harder than going from 5.4 to 6.1. Once you fall off the upgrade path, everything becomes more difficult.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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