>> Let me get this straight.
>>
>> You are running one of your "core" IT systems on 25 year old software? What's
>> it running on - Win NT/SVR3 ? You now want to update it to the
>> latest version and complain that the supplier doesn't provide a tool to migrate data through
>> 9 different versions in a single step?
>>
>> Suppliers will usually provide a tool if migration is required between one version and the
>> next ie V9 to V10 but expecting them to also cater for 25yo data formats
>> is ridiculous.
>>
>>
To be fair, it has nothing to do with me why the company is still running the old software. I guess that it did the job it needed to do, with no real need for an upgrade. I know other companies are still running v1 and v2.
It is running on the supplier's servers. That's what's so annoying about it. The supplier has always promised an easy upgrade when it was needed and in fact I was at the original sales pitch when that was promised. I voted against the upgrade because I wanted to see what alternative suppliers offered but the management team decided to stay with the current supplier.
The software has been maintained over the years.
I haven't been involved in the project and have been called in at the last minute because of the sudden unanticipated workload.
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