[WASTE-list] Re: OSX Minimum Version

[Darren Boon]

My target market is also K-12 education and we are in the same situation of
supporting OS9, OSX, and windows. So any help to support older operating
systems is appreciated.

Darren Boon


-----Original Message-----
From: waste-list-bounces at ovolab.com
[mailto:waste-list-bounces at ovolab.com]On Behalf Of Richard L. Aurbach
Sent: February 6, 2006 1:02 AM
To: waste-list at ovolab.com
Subject: [WASTE-list] Re: OSX Minimum Version


A large part of my market is K-12 education, and we still have a  
significant customer base running OS9 (typically on iMacs that could  
run OSX if anyone were interested in buying extra memory for them,  
which no one is...). (The typical scenario is a school district  
running OSX in the high school, but using older machines and OS9 in  
elementary buildings.) So I produce three versions of my products -  
OS9, OSX, and Windows. (The OS9 and OSX products are currently nearly  
identical -- there are only a few places where the OSX version uses  
APIs which are not available on OS9-Carbon-CFM.)

So, I'm still using WASTE 2.1.

Over the next year or so, I will be moving the OSX version to MachO  
to support MacTel customers, and I plan to drop OS9 support some time  
after that. So obviously, I won't be working with WASTE 3 for a  
while. BUT, I do know that I still have a substantial number of OSX  
customers who are still running Jaguar, so I think that WASTE 3 on  
Jaguar is still important. I realize that lots of shops take a  
different approach, but I find that I have a lot of customers who are  
slow to upgrade their operating systems.

I realize that supporting Jaguar is expensive -- for Marco and for  
us. But I hope that Marco will choose to support Jaguar in WASTE 3  
for at least another year or two, giving us more time to work with  
our budget-constrained customers. In my markets, change --  
particularly change that involves substantial financial outlays --  
comes very slowly indeed.

Cheers,

Rick Aurbach, Ph.D.
President and Chief Engineer
Aurbach & Associates, Inc.
8233 Tulane Avenue, Suite B
St. Louis, MO 63132

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On Feb 5, 2006, at 7:12 PM, John C. Daub wrote:


> FWIW, the products I'm working on are going 10.4 (and above) in the  

> next

> versions (due later this year). We may support back to 10.3.9, but  

> that'd be

> as far back as we'd go.

>

> I don't have need for support prior to 10.3.9, and really don't  

> need nor

> want the support, testing, maintenance, that goes along with trying to

> support OS versions that our users aren't using.

>

> But WASTE is different... it's a library used far and wide. I guess  

> it's a

> matter of how much cost is involved in supporting older OS  

> versions, and if

> the benefit is worth the cost.

>

> -- 

> John C. Daub }:-)>=

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> Maybe it's not to late to learn how to love and forget how to  

> hate." - Ozzy

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