RE: Another one bites the dust

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Once again, I bring up the example of a major software vendor who asked at
their user convention if they would mind if they stopped supporting older
versions and only supported versions of the OS that IBM supports.  They
got a standing ovation.  Now the users had more clubs to beat their
managers into upgrading the OS's on their machines.  The vendor was quite
happily surprised.

Rob Berendt
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin




Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net>
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>On the minus side, that means that in order to
>support clients I have to avoid the newer stuff,

Welcome to the world of software houses.
There is a positive benefit to seeing the new functions come out even if I
can't use them straightaway.  It gives me ideas for ways to code my own
functions.  The point being that I can hand-code a function today and
target
the V4R2 compiler, but when all my customers move to a more modern release
I
can use the new functionality.

I am working on a generic build/make tool that will toggle the proper
version of the service program for the target release.  It will help my
RPG
and CL code but not the Synon stuff.
  --buck
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