[EAS] Some clarifications RE: EAS vendor support for TLS versions

[Sean Donelan]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2019, Ed Czarnecki wrote:
> The first fee-based update was v3.0 - coming after 12 years of free 
> software updates.  Strictly speaking, DASDEC updates have not come out 
> "every three years" - looking back at our software lifecycle of v1.0 
> through v4.0 the overall average is 5.3 years between any major update. 
> And, up till then, v3.0 was the ONLY fee-based update we had ever 
> issued.  Statements that we had been charging "all along" are factually 
> incorrect.

I guess it depends whether you include the DASDEC-I to DASDEC-II hardware 
replacement and software upgrade as "fee-based."  Or just restarting the 
software maintenance version numbers on new hardware.

The DASDEC-I replacement still affected the budgets.  I would start the 
paid upgrade cycle with the DASDEC-II release.  Likewise with Sage, I 
would start with their current hardware cycle, not the EEPROM chip updates 
going back to the ENDEC 1822 in the 1990s.