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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Why Upgrade?
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Every so often, I run across a customer using an older version of Cincom Smalltalk - typically VW users with VW 2.5.x. A question that seems to come up all the time is "why should I upgrade?" Now, I understand that it's a fairly big move (2.5 was released in 1995, so an upgrade involves moving across 9 years of active development). At the same time though, it's an odd sort of question - how many people are sticking with the 1.02 version of Java, for instance? Seems to me that it's the same sort of thing.