DocsWare Year 2000 information

It has been our opinion here at DocsWare that any software written should be able to continue to run for as long as the hardware upon which it runs can be maintained. Experience has shown that a platform will normally be used for at least four times its rated service life, and where it costs considerably to upgrade it, significantly longer.

Hence, we came to this conclusion :

To design hardware or software that does not accomodate such a known problem, at a point so close to when the problem will occur, has to be one of two things :

stupidity or carelessness, that is, not considering or not caring that the item may be used after the point of failure

- or -

greed, that is, designing a product that will at a fixed point in the near future require the consumer to replace it

We wish to be accused of neither of these.

On those applications we have that perform math with dates, we have designed the application to accomodate dates through the year 9999, or in some cases, 65535. We honestly believe that to build in such a limitation should be avoided, but there is little chance that any of the products we produce today will be in use over sixty-three thousand (or even nearly eight thousand) years from now, and there is currently in production no operating system and hardware combination we know of capable of handling beyond the year 2155 (most will need serious work somewhere between 1998 and 2044).

Any DocsWare application that fails due to a date-related problem, on a system that is certified to be capable of handling the failed date, under an operating system that has also been certified to be capable of handling the failed date (if applicable), will be repaired or upgraded free of charge.

Please also see the year 2000 statement on those programs that have them.

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