Re: VISTA and v11: A CAUTIONARY TALE

On 19 Feb 2009, at 02:00, Walt Nelson wrote:

> virtually every major program
> running in 4D will break when it is upgraded to v11

Hi Walt

 From what I've seen of v11 so far, it looks like less pain to  
upgrade than, say, the move from 6.7 to 2003/4 since those had a  
brand new OS to support if you were using Mac.

Once the dust settles on v11 I'm firmly expecting to have a  
reasonably smooth upgrade for my 90-workstation 24/7 mission critical  
network apart from having to re-code a few sub-files which have been  
in there since the dawn of man. Also, Active4D of course.

[Will let you know if things don't go according to expectations -:) ]

Just wondering what in particular you would have had 4D do  
differently ? They are usually pretty good at preserving behavior via  
the compatibility checkbox approach. They had to support unicode to  
not go out of business. Same for SQL and X-LIFF. The native DB  
language (and behavior) is preserved. Legacy support for Ascii and  
resources is preserved.

Feel free to consider my comments naive as I haven't embarked on a  
single upgrade yet, so your the one with the experience on that front  
and I'll gladly take any advice going.

As for Active 4D, I've so far been provided with a great product for  
not much money by a 1-man operation so I don't feel in a position to  
make any demands there.  I've told my customer Mar-Dec 2010 for  
Active 4D v11 and I'm amazed at the progress Aparajita has already  
made according to his last report considering he was looking for work  
just a few weeks ago.

Think we'll just sit it out with 2004 for now and see how things go.

Regards

Peter

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