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Hi, In may this year, one of our customers was 6 openedge updates, and 5 major versions of our sottware, after not having changed anything on their system for 10 years (perhaps a bit longer even). Even the monitors where the same rectangle ones. They have upgraded from on-premise installation of our ERP, to a Citrix published app hosted in a datacentre off-premise. We have automated our entire build-street; every commit is incorporated automatically in daily "trunk"-builds. We release patch-versions every week, major versions every year (before every 2 or 3 years). Installation is done automatically, so all we needed to do was type: install and a version-number. After an 4 - 6 hours or so the update was completed. The biggest part was planning the down time. Finding out which "functional" conversions needed to be done. And we also ran into a few "bugs" which where introduced years ago but never reported 
We also did a "dry run" of the installation to flush out any problems, and measure all steps; around the moving of the database and setting up the new envrionment. Planning = key
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We also did a "dry run" of the installation to flush out any problems, and measure all steps; around the moving of the database and setting up the new envrionment. Planning = keyContinue reading...