will old filepro work on XP computer

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:50:49 -0400):

> [Ken said]
> > > I don't understand the "we'll spend zillions of dollars upgrading
> > > our hardware every 6 months, but we won't spend a dime to upgrade
> > > the software that we bought 15 years ago" mentality.
>
> Well, the "over time" thing doesn't exactly fit (or maybe it does to
> them), but it's like having to buy an OS for the computer.  That
> computer isn't going to do anything without an OS--it's not even going
> to be running software of any type.  So basically the argument goes,
> "It's like buying a car and having to purchase the engine separately."
[...]

Well, I can't speak of the specific case at hand, but there are two
general categories of "how do we get this ancient version of filePro
to run on this brand new system" people.

The first are the "we upgrade our hardware regularly, and this ancient
version of filePro has been moved a dozen times to new systems, but
now I'm having a problem".  These are the people I have trouble
understanding the logic behind not upgrading the software as well.
They spend money like water on the hardware, but think that software
should come with free support and upgrades forever.

The second are the "we've been running this ancient version of filePro
on this ancient computer, and we finally replaced it, but only because
the hardware was about to die" people.  At least I can understand that
some of these people simply aren't in the position to spend the money
to upgrade both the hardware and software at the same time.

(Obviously, these are the two extremes, but I've noticed that many
people tend to be closer to the extremes than the middle on this
subject.  Sort of an upside-down bell curve.)

Note that we recently had someone enquire about getting their filePro
data from their old Tandy Xenix system to an XP box.  Sometimes, you
can take "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" to the extreme.

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