Encrypting credit card data

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The honourable and venerable Jose Lerebours spoke thus:
> > All of which are 5.6-isms--all the encryption is.  He said he's running
> > 5.0.14.  Rather useless to him, I should think.
> >
> Call me silly but don't people upgrade if doing so allows them to obtain 
> or complete new business?

A feature would have to be really compelling for me to upgrade something
at that price point.  That appears to be the case with most people around
here.  The economy isn't helping it.

> The time that it has taken with all this back and forth should cost much
> more than upgrading to whatever version he needs ...

Assuming a 5-user devkit, no way in hell have we spent that much time
($1500) on the subject.  Not even close.

Unless someone types -really- slowly...

> Heck, live and let live ... upgrade, get the job done, move on ... help
> filePro and fpTech survival thus helping yourself.

I'm not in charge of upgrade decisions.  I do know people have refused to
upgrade based on issues with 5.0.15, much less 5.6.  I know people that are
sticking with 5.0.14 even though .15 has bugfixes, strictly because of the
license manager backport--legitimate paying customers that have nothing to
fear but don't want to deal with the headache.  One can't really blame them
after hearing stories like the post from the weekend where someone
downloaded a new license file that had 0 licenses.  :/

I find it best to try and address an issue within someone's stated version,
at least in this community.  Additional information isn't necessarily bad,
but simply saying the equivalent of, "It's been solved," isn't actually
going to work quickly when obtaining that solution costs upwards of a
grand.

Then there's the time to rollout.  I don't know how -you- do it, but if I
were migrating someone from 5.0.14 to 5.6, it wouldn't get taken live for
at -least- three months of extensive in-house testing with the full set of
applications to be run on the platform before it was deployed live.  That's
just due diligence.  If someone needs a complete solution -now-, rushing to
upgrade and running into problems can be both expensive and foolhardy
IMNSHO.

> Do you guys invent a wheel every time you get a flat?

When it's more cost effective and prudent to use one wheel than another,
and the performance is equal or better, someone's going to use the less
expensive wheel.

mark->
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"I'm not subtle. I'm not pretty, and I'll piss off a lot of people along
the way. But I'll get the job done" --Captain Matthew Gideon, "Crusade"