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All,

A simple question and I expect I know the answer won't be good.

A client wants to use CX 9.5, they are happy to put all the require prerequisites on the server.
However they are not willing to upgrade their clients from Excel 2000.

I know Excel 2000 isn't officially supported and as such am very much against recommending they go ahead with the project until they upgrade.

Has anyone used Excel 2000 with CX 9.5 Xcelerator? Is it even possible to install it?

I intend to dust off a copy of 2000 later and see how it reacts but other experiences would be well appreciated.

Cheers
Declan

They aren't willing to upgrade from Office 2000? Maybe they would be more comfortable with pencil and paper T-account ledgers and an abacus? You could do an implementation with web only as UI but if they want an Excel UI then I agree unless they upgrade to Office 2010 its not worth bothering further.

lotsaram wrote:...upgrade to Office 2010...

Surely you mean Office 2007 as the software in question is CX 9.5 i.e. TM1 9.5.1...

Cheers guys, I had pretty much decided that was going to be my response anyway but felt I should at least do research via a few different avenues before giving an absolute answer.

Simply speaking there are enough badly developed models out in the market and I don't want to be in the position where I am responsible for adding to that phenomenon. I have a feeling that if still using Excel 2000 there are probably also a few other out of date systems that the company could benefit from updating before they look at bringing in any fancy new tool sets.