Re: Interesting coverage of our project on the SQL-Ledger-users list

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> Keith Edmunds <..hidden..> 
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> ...and surely that is the point? Does IE7 represent "a sufficiently 
large
> segment of the market"? I don't see any posts from would-be users saying
> that they've evaluated LSMB with Firefox and they like it, but to roll 
out
> they need IE7 support. At the moment, all posts that speculate on the 
size
> of the LSMB market that would /have/ to have it working with IE7 are 
just
> that: speculation.
> 
>

This is not speculation.  We use IE.  I am willing to move to Firefox, but 
I am much smaller than what I suspect are the target customers that LSMB 
will be looking to attract in the next few years.  Furthermore, the posts 
are coming coming mostly from current users so to read anything more into 
that is a big mistake.  One could argue that you are not seeing more 
responses from IE users because they have chosen an alternative because 
LSMB doesn't support IE.  There is no reason to participate in this forum 
if you haven't decided to implement LSMB.  I understand the points that 
Chris has made regarding the issues with supporting IE and it very well 
may not be the best choice at the moment, but with IE in the 85% market 
share arena, clearly this is an extremely large segment potentially 
speaking.  As  Chris has mentioned, it appears that IE 8.x might provide 
the solution likely required for IE houses.  If so, LSMB is small enough 
and still in its infancy where they can likely wait to IE 8 becomes 
prevalent in order to provide support.  In other words, support of IE 7 or 
earlier very well may not be critical, but a road map that shows IE 
support in the future I do think will be important to LSMB as long as IE 
holds a majority market share.

Regards,
Steven