>>Fire away Boys! (s)

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>Boys? Hey, hey, hey...you were just trying to get me to check in on this one, weren't you?

No offense intended. I tend to speak in informal terms. I always refer to groups of people (male and female) as "guys" as well as in "hey, guys, hows it going?" etc.

>Sorry, I was out yesterday. I, for one, tend to come down on Lucien's side on these arguments. I'm in Atlanta, not exactly a backwater, and you can't beleive how much demand there is for maintaining/updating even 2.5 DOS applications. As I've said before, I'm on a government contract now, and when I asked the network admin folks (alias the Network Nazis) when I could expect the division to upgrade to Win95, the answer was December. Of 1997. I also have twelve public health sites out there running the data collection end of this app, and you can't imagine what kind of dog's breakfast of hardware there is in the field (hey, I've got sites in Arkansas, you know what I mean?)
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>Yes, it gripes me when I have to drop down into 2.6 (or 2.5DOS) to do something, and I spend half a day reinventing the wheel to arrive at a control that would be automatic in 3.0, but that's why I make the big bucks, right?

I would agree, I was just speculating on the more long temr (i.e the next year or so and beyond) market.

>Fact is, it will be years before I can depend on clients having 32-bit systems. The management around here decided last spring that everything was going to go on Powerbuilder, and I spent six excruciating days in PB class. Then they remembered that we'd have to upgrade about a billion computers on a government budget, and they went gently into that good night.

Things do move differently on the taxpayer dollar, don't they? (s) Again, most of my clients are often overhauling thier systems or building one for the first time. Also, they tend to have fewer machines, so the cost of uprgading is lessened somewhat. I also think (IMHO) that the future lies in intercommunication between various apps (ala MS Office style automation) that will not be possible on older platforms, unless you are talking about an Internet/Intranet style app, but even those may require a "higher" platform.

Thanks for your input!

Scot.