Re: What is the best way to handle old browser versions?

From: William Morris (news.remove.this.and.the.dots_at_seamlyne.com)
Date: 09/17/04


Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:27:09 -0500

As an addendum to what Ken said, you might also estimate what such security
risks could mean to the company monetarily. I've always had better luck
presenting my case to decision makers when I could attach a dollar value to
my points.

 - Wm

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William Morris
Product Development, Seritas LLC
Kansas City, Missouri
"Ken Dopierala Jr." <kdopierala2@wi.rr.com> wrote in message
news:OCT$6kGnEHA.4068@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi Jason,
>
> Netscape 4.77?  Wow!  I don't know what to tell you.  Sometimes an IT
> manager with a very strong bias or ignorance gets to make decisions he is
no
> longer qualified to make.  For starters I would hit your favorite search
> engine.  Search for Netscape 4.77 Security - take the first few dozen
links
> and create a presentation showing the danger your customer is exposing
> 20,000 users to.  If you make this presentation to the people responsible
> for giving the 4.77 decision maker his decision making ability you might
get
> somewhere.  Good luck!  Ken.
>
> "Jason" <nfr@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:OYak40CnEHA.2948@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > We have an Extranet with one customer with 20,000 users that has,
> > unfortunately, standardized on Netscape 4.77 for the entire company. We
> are
> > in the process of rewriting this application from Java to .NET and, of
> > course, would not like to be constrained by the Least Common Denominator
> > (LCD) this particular company represents.
> >
> > Question: What is the best way to handle this without having to double
the
> > development effort? For example, MVC pattern, etc.?
> >
> >
>
>


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