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QB 2006 Pro Upgrade Jungle 07-20-2006
---> Re: QB 2006 Pro Upgrade Golden Californ...07-20-2006
Posted by Jungle on July 20, 2006, 10:20 am
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 We have a 5-user license for QB 2004 Pro and need to know if we can
upgrade to 2006 Pro with a 1-user license and then purchase the
additional seats as needed. Does anyone know if this is possible? Does
anyone know of issues with upgrading from 2004 Pro to 2006 Pro as we
try not to contact QB support. We have not had much success when
calling them as well as the extremely long hold times. Thanks in
advance for any information provided.


Posted by Golden California Girls on July 20, 2006, 11:11 am
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 Jungle wrote:
> We have a 5-user license for QB 2004 Pro and need to know if we can
> upgrade to 2006 Pro with a 1-user license and then purchase the
> additional seats as needed. Does anyone know if this is possible? Does
> anyone know of issues with upgrading from 2004 Pro to 2006 Pro as we
> try not to contact QB support. We have not had much success when
> calling them as well as the extremely long hold times. Thanks in
> advance for any information provided.

You can buy one at a time, even electronically. I think one copy has to
be physical but I'm not sure.

I know of no specific issues in 2004 to 2006 upgrade other than the
issues everyone has in an upgrade to 2006.

In you case you don't need to call support, you need to call sales and
they answer with American's.

Issue. Once you upgrade, 2004 will not read the file any more, so you
are going to need those 2006 users pretty fast. It may be much cheaper
to get a 5 user pack right away. It also provides the ability to host
on a server.




Posted by klunk on July 20, 2006, 11:57 am
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To the previous post, I would add:

As with any critical business application, it is good
policy to test QB before going live. Especially one which
is not compatible between versions, and which is much
more demanding of computer horsepower with each
new version.

Upgrade a testing copy of your QB data file, and run it
through a few typical scenarios. Since you are multi-user,
it would make sense to at least buy 2 licenses so you can
test multi-user access.

As mentioned by GCG, QB 2006 can be setup as a true
database server, so be sure to test it in that mode.

QB 2006 moved to a completely different data storage
method (based on Sybase SQL Anywhere engine). This
has improved performance in some areas, but some
processes have become markedly slower (ie. requesting
some reports via the SDK are 10x slower). Hopefully these
are just growing pains and/or poorly optimized SQL
statements that will be fixed in the future.



Posted by HeyBub on July 20, 2006, 1:47 pm
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Jungle wrote:
> We have a 5-user license for QB 2004 Pro and need to know if we can
> upgrade to 2006 Pro with a 1-user license and then purchase the
> additional seats as needed. Does anyone know if this is possible? Does
> anyone know of issues with upgrading from 2004 Pro to 2006 Pro as we
> try not to contact QB support. We have not had much success when
> calling them as well as the extremely long hold times. Thanks in
> advance for any information provided.

There is no "upgrade" in the former sense of "upgrade" being cheaper than
"initial."

You must buy a whole new program that is indifferent as to whether you
already own a prior version.



Posted by Allan Martin on July 20, 2006, 3:23 pm
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> Jungle wrote:
>> We have a 5-user license for QB 2004 Pro and need to know if we can
>> upgrade to 2006 Pro with a 1-user license and then purchase the
>> additional seats as needed. Does anyone know if this is possible? Does
>> anyone know of issues with upgrading from 2004 Pro to 2006 Pro as we
>> try not to contact QB support. We have not had much success when
>> calling them as well as the extremely long hold times. Thanks in
>> advance for any information provided.
>
> There is no "upgrade" in the former sense of "upgrade" being cheaper than
> "initial."
>
> You must buy a whole new program that is indifferent as to whether you
> already own a prior version.

While you are at it disreguard the fact the the price has been lowered to
what you would have paid if Intuit issued a rebate to prior users of the
product.

>
>



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