Using FP 5.6 to develope for 5.0.14 runtime systems

[Brian K. White]

On 5/20/2010 6:15 AM, Fairlight wrote:
> Simon--er, no...it was Scott Walker--said:
>    
>> Has any one used Fp  5.6 to do development work for customers running 5.0.14
>>      
> Well, I've written stuff on 5.6-based systems that has ended up being used
> on 5.0.14 and even 4.8 systems.
>
> All of the features I personally use are 5.0 and before.
>
>    
>> Fp sales advises me that it would not be any problem as long as I don't use
>> any 5.6 specific features.
>>      
> Sales' response to you sounds perfectly...sound.
>
>    
>> My SCO system is getting too old to rely on so I need to move to a Linux
>> server.  I've been developing in 5.0.14 on the SCO box and that's what I
>> would really like to use 5.0.14 for development on the Linux box but fp
>> sales says they can't sell me 5.0.14 for Linux.
>>      
> Of course not--they want everyone on their License Manager.  Well, honestly
> they probably want people on 5.6 to keep support costs down as well.  But
> I'm betting it'd be easier to get them to give you 5.0.15 than 5.0.14, as
> they rolled the license manager back into 5.0 at 5.0.15 from what I
> remember.  I've been told there are issues in moving from 5.0.14 to 5.0.15,
> though--and not just the license manager, but actual bugs that made it a
> dealbreaker.
>
> mark->
>    

Don't use 5.0.15. It's not just the license manager. It is very 
definitely _also_ the license manager and that is actually a flat deal 
breaker for us all by itself. But we actually tried it _anyways_ , 
because we wanted the larger token tables, greater gosub and call 
nesting, and more indexes.
But ultimately we had to abandon it. 5.0.14 to 5.0.15 is not a 
difference in degree but a difference in kind and I'd simply keep 
insisting on 5.0.14 despite what the salesperson says. I'd buy 5.0.15 
licences and then not use it but use preexisting copies of 5.0.14 
instead, even though it meant paying 5.0.15 prices and waiving any right 
to support. Of course they don't want that. But, who's the customer here 
anyway?

"In mother Russia, application program you!" Yeah about that...

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bkw