Re: Is the Jaguar user base large enough to still
Re: Is the Jaguar user base large enough to still
- Subject: Re: Is the Jaguar user base large enough to still
- From: Keith Ray <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:23:51 -0700
Many academic institutions (particularly K-12) only buy software when
they buy hardware... so supporting old versions of the OS gains few
sales to that audience.
On 4/14/05, Daniel Child <email@hidden> wrote:
> I guess I'll throw in my two cents. As people mentioned earlier, one's
> audience is critical, and as a graduate student I have plenty of time
> to look around campus.
>
> For universities, the answer is obvious: assuming frequent upgrades
> would be a mistake. At UH, for instance, there are rooms full of Macs
> running 9.2, and because the hardware is old, it makes little sense to
> even upgrade to 10 anything (pick your cat). I believe some of the
> computer room PCs run XP, but that is simply because the hardware is
> newer. Others are still stuck on 2000 or 98.
>
> I'm not suggesting developers support Classic, but the point is simple:
> academic institutions don't have the money to upgrade every 6 months to
> a year. In fact, if the upgrade costs a lot of money, it may not happen
> until they buy new hardware. Given that, it makes sense for anything
> that may of interest to students and teachers to be as far backwards
> compatible as is reasonable. Supporting Jaguar would not be a bad
> thing, from that perspective.
>
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