I used to have the same opinion as you... that is until I got a government contract (can't go into too many details). It was 2002 and all but one
machine in the whole building was running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. Developer tools were close to impossible to find, let alone, it is NOT a good
platform for... well, anything. They demanded that we not touch their setup. After about 9 months of work and no end in sight, they marked the problem
up to incompotence and started fishing for other people to fulfill the contract. Needless to say, no one would touch it. In the end, they upgraded
their machines and OS's to Windows 2000. The project took 3 weeks to complete, written from scratch.

The customer is NOT always right. If they knew what they were doing, they wouldn't need to hire you.

Jason

ainpoissee wrote:

> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Federico Tello Gentile
> <fgentile@s...> wrote:
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>>Seriously, use something else.W98 will freeze run out of resources,
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> need
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>>to be rebooted, catch viri, etc.
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> I do not use Win98 myself, it's my customer. It's not so simple to
> make someone to upgrade just to run your software. You better try to
> get it to run on customer's system, or there is good chance you'll
> lose an customer...
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> ain
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