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To: flatsville who wrote (4745)	3/17/1999 5:12:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) of 9818

In many cases one simply HAS to upgrade (otherwise no compliant system will be there 1/1/2000); there may well be no alternative. I guess any delays in these rollouts will force companies to put more resource on the task (less time to do it); therefore freezing other system development projects etc. It is hard to generalize on this topic though. The problem is especially in all those dependencies that have to be considered (e.g. Application ABC V1.2 released on OS R4.0 SP3; OS has to upgrade to next level SP; but e.g. some system component has been changed on which app ABC depends; so ABC has to be tested again on the new SP; might have to be code-changed; another application XYZ depends on ABC, interfacing between ABC and XYZ has to be checked also, etc etc). In the end most components depend on the OS (operating system) and it's Service Packs; any delays in delivery of the SP's will mess-up the upgrade planning of all those dependent applications. John

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