RE: question on survey question

[Tom Daly <Tdaly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now I see what you're saying.

Although I can think of a few exceptions, most customers who will shell out
the money for the source are going to do their PTFs and stay fairly current
on OS releases.

As a developer I think it would be great to be able to target multiple OS
releases (not necessarily OS versions) with a single source and use the
latest language enhancements.

So if not for the source issue, what do you think?

Tom
 |  -----Original Message-----
 |  From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
 |  Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 15:58
 |  Subject: RE: question on survey question
 |
 |  The PTF would come into play because the customer would
 |  want the source
 |  code.  They would want to compile it on their dinosaur of a
 |  machine.  In
 |  order to get this new release of the compiler, the minimum
 |  you'd have to do
 |  is apply a PTF.  Many customers would pitch a fit because
 |  they don't put
 |  ptf's on for the same reason that they don't put releases on.
 |
 |  Rob Berendt