RE: RPG IV release levels and complexity

It's you that I've been quoting all these years!  I knew that I heard that 
somewhere.

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




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 >> After all, as an application developer I don't put new features in 
older
releases.

That is an interesting comment Ron - but regrettably in my experience you
are unusual.  Most developers program to the lowest common denominator in
their user base - even though that means that they cannot use newer more
efficient methods.

The irony is that in every case where I have been involved (which means 
two
major software vendors) - when the vendor finally gave up and forced the
users to move to anew release the users applauded!  Conventional wisdom 
was
that they would rebel and refuse to move - in practice in both cases the
fears were unfounded - the users were looking for an excuse to justify an
upgrade to an in-service release!

Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com


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