You asked for it Wayne, so here goes ... We are still on 3.0 but considering
the jump straight to 5.0 in the near future. Why are we still on 3.0?
We were burned very badly by going from 2.5 to 2.7 within days of its
release. No testing, nothing - just install the update. We were a young
company and fairly new Vantage user so we figured it was the same as
upgrading from Office 95 to Office 97 not knowing any better. Nope, without
too much detail there were many functionality issues that hurt us for weeks
until the first patches started coming out.
We weren't burned as badly on 3.0. We got a new server and had it installed
for "testing" for a few months before going live, but we really didn't do
the extensive testing that we should have. We went live and again had a lot
of issues that hurt us until some patches started coming out.
Then a user group was formed within easy day-trip distance and we learned of
the One List and subscribed. We had no intentions of going to 4.0 until the
good word was given, which occured about 7 months after release. Then we
started considering the switch but 5.0 was on the horizon so why not wait.
Same thing with 5.0, came out with a lot of problems and we weren't
switching until the good word was given on the Yahoo group.
I would say it took us a good 6 months of patches and tech support to get
everything to where we are today with 3.0, which is everyone working
smoothly on Vantage with no major problems from day to day. It is mainly
that reason we haven't really switched - If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
We realize there is functionality to be gained by upgrading, but
unfortunately we didn't think the hassle was worth the gain.
That brings us to now. We are still on 3.0 live but I have 5.0 running on a
test server for about 6 months. We haven't really done much testing with it
because we haven't really made the committment to upgrade yet. I think that
is coming in the next few weeks. What a great Christmas present - a two
version Vantage upgrade.
Rick
the jump straight to 5.0 in the near future. Why are we still on 3.0?
We were burned very badly by going from 2.5 to 2.7 within days of its
release. No testing, nothing - just install the update. We were a young
company and fairly new Vantage user so we figured it was the same as
upgrading from Office 95 to Office 97 not knowing any better. Nope, without
too much detail there were many functionality issues that hurt us for weeks
until the first patches started coming out.
We weren't burned as badly on 3.0. We got a new server and had it installed
for "testing" for a few months before going live, but we really didn't do
the extensive testing that we should have. We went live and again had a lot
of issues that hurt us until some patches started coming out.
Then a user group was formed within easy day-trip distance and we learned of
the One List and subscribed. We had no intentions of going to 4.0 until the
good word was given, which occured about 7 months after release. Then we
started considering the switch but 5.0 was on the horizon so why not wait.
Same thing with 5.0, came out with a lot of problems and we weren't
switching until the good word was given on the Yahoo group.
I would say it took us a good 6 months of patches and tech support to get
everything to where we are today with 3.0, which is everyone working
smoothly on Vantage with no major problems from day to day. It is mainly
that reason we haven't really switched - If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
We realize there is functionality to be gained by upgrading, but
unfortunately we didn't think the hassle was worth the gain.
That brings us to now. We are still on 3.0 live but I have 5.0 running on a
test server for about 6 months. We haven't really done much testing with it
because we haven't really made the committment to upgrade yet. I think that
is coming in the next few weeks. What a great Christmas present - a two
version Vantage upgrade.
Rick
> B.S. I Say!! It sounds like fewer than 20 or the 800 or soissue?
> here have gone beyond 4.0? Anyone have an accurate census? And if you're
> still back at 3.0 or earlier, why is that? No maintenance, or some other
>
> -Wayne Cox