Strange sentiment - a software company should stop supporting products it's still actively selling.  That's certainly a unique perspective.  Anyway, I think you might have misread this posting.  It is only older versions of the application that are going off support.  They will soon be coming out with version 8.0, so 5.3 is pretty old.

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Sent: August 04, 2004 3:07 PM
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Subject: Re: FYI: Ecometry Announcement, in case you missed it.


Long overdue. Smith/Gardner should have stopped supporting MACS/Ecometry
a l-o-n-g  time ago.

The "Order Management" source is a spaghetti code mess. Now that program
was *difficult* to maintain.


<<SNIP>>

As of June 30, 2004, Ecometry ceased supporting all MPE versions prior to
5.3.2 and all Open Systems versions prior to 5.4.x.

<<END OF SNIP>>

Long overdue. Smith/Gardner should have given up supporting their
spaghetti-code software A.K.A MACS/Ecometry a  l-o-n-g  time ago.

The "Order Management" source is a spaghetti code mess. Now that program
was a *difficult* %$#%#$% to maintain.

Won't miss it one little bit.

However, the HP3000 will always be the best platform I have ever worked
on (so far)...


Brian.

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