Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!wilkins
From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7 and Mac Plus/SE 68030 upgrades.
Message-ID: <9531@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 5 Nov 90 16:43:54 GMT
References: <3117@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> <1990Nov5.065457.2872@world.std.com> <3119@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <3119@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> rob@murtoa.UUCP (Robert Wallen) writes:
>Also, the deadlocks caused by 'User A: I want to use the latest features of
>MacNeato 7.3 but it needs System 6.12.3a.  When are we upgrading?'
>'User B: I need to keep using WizzoCalc 1.8 and it breaks under anything later
>than System 6.11.2.  Get onto the people at WizzoInc and get the latest version
>from them, will you?'
>Who do I keep happy?  And how do you guarantee that you will even be able to?


  What you're missing here is that by and large in the Mac world software
updates are FREE.  The only reason you don't see this problem in the IBM
world is that nobody can afford software updates.

  Given that issue, why don't you just tell your users not to update once
their system works acceptably?

  Also, the type of deadlock you've described only have happened, in my
experience, with companies like Ashton-Tate and Microsoft which have
traditionally ignored Apple's rules.  I guarantee you that half the software
problems people have on Macs could be solved by taking out all the INITs and
boycotting Microsoft.

-- Mark Wilkins

P.S.  NO major package I've seen running broke under System 7.0b1, including:

  FullWrite Pro
  Word 4.0
  WingZ
  Mathematica
  Claris MacWrite II
  Cricket Graph 1.3.1
  Illustrator 1.9.5
  PixelPaint Proffesional
  Adobe Photoshop
  PageMaker

  By and large, compatibility ISN'T a problem, and when it is a simple call
to the manufacturer usually gets you a FREE update.
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