Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!silver!jkain From: jkain@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Kain) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7 and Mac Plus/SE 68030 upgrades. Message-ID: Date: 5 Nov 90 17:04:57 GMT References: <9514@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1990Nov3.122558.28340@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <9516@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <3117@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> <1990Nov5.065457.2872@world.std.com> <3119@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> Sender: news@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Lines: 45 rob@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Wallen) writes: >Figures doesnt it. So if you want to keep using the 'friendliest' computer >around, you need to keep your nose to the net and up to your eyeballs in the >latest MacWeek, MacUser, MacTutor, etc and hope you catch the clues... You can still use the friendliest computer in the world without keeping abreast of current trends and issues. You'll just be the most ignorant manager managing the friendliest computer. >Just imagine our office runs a nifty little database on Hypercard which we >justified because 'its free'. Now run a 'runtime-only' version instead. I've never heard of a runtime version of HyperCard. Does it exist? Since it's free software to begin with there's no real reason for a runtime version. >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? We guarantee this by carefully planning which software packages we support. This means sticking to the "Excel"'s and the "Pagemaker"'s. We don't stuff our machines full of unsupported freeware and shareware, or outdated versions which are no longer supported by the publisher. If a user wants to use them that's his or her choice, but they realize that they're not supported and can't expect us to guarantee their compatibility with progressing technologies. Jeff Kain Macintosh Support Technician Indiana University Computing Services The above comments do not reflect the opinions of Indiana University or Indiana University Computing Services. -- "Quoth the raven, `Eat my shorts!'" -Edgar Allen Poe / Bart Simpson