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Great insight - makes one heck of a lot of sense and it could shave a couple of
quarters off the Y2K fix. So what we'd see is a TS/SC 5 "Lite" which will
require a full installation and conversion process (including Omega's brand new
server for TS users) before we can begin using the "fix". Sounds exciting -
can't wait until all that fresh code gets out of alpha testing, oops I mean beta
testing. Omega has already announced that owners of versions prior to TS/SC4
are, as you say, "out of luck".
Earl
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Fulks <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Timothy Morge <tmorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, July 16, 1998 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: Is TS 5 next generation or not?
>I suspect the real reason that the Y2K 4.0 patch will follow the release of
>5.0 is that there will not be a Y2K "patch". Such "patches" are too
>expensive to build and test and have no revenue impact (no direct
>return-on-investment). Even if the code changes to 4.0 are minor
>(unlikely), the testing is still a major effort. And how many of you will
>volunteer to beta test a Y2K patch on your critical data. Not me.
>
>What usually happens in such cases is that all 4.0 users will get a
>"crippled" version of 5.0 with certain 5.0 features there but disabled. It
>is very easy to build software such that certain features are disabled. So
>I would bet that 4.0 customers will either upgrade to 5.0 for a fee, or get
>a crippled version for free. In any case, we will be using 5.0 code whether
>we want to or not. 3.5 customers are probably out of luck.
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