Re: Is the Jaguar user base large enough to still

FROM : Daniel Child
DATE : Thu Apr 14 22:26:05 2005

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.