I can think of one reason.......if someone still does work for AMC's that require Lighthouse. Less expensive and less steps to get it to the end user. (don't have to go through Mercury, like with Athena)
BTW - any new word on Pocket Genie?
Actually, it's MUCH harder with Olympus, in several ways. Just bear with me a second.
First, there are bugs in Lighthouse which cause some Olympus forms to be dropped (some photo pages, and some data forms), which then have to be retyped completely. With Athena and Mercury, we actually have it write an incorrect Olympus-format file for Lighthouse so that Lighthouse's buggy code would read a file the way it expected. The way it expected was wrong, but now it works. Those pages don't have to be redone. Crazy, I know, but we couldn't count on ACI to ever fix their end.
Second, it launches Lighthouse automatically and has the file already in the Lighthouse directory. That saves more steps.
Third, with Athena and Mercury, the vast majority of Mercury Network clients don't want Lighthouse files any more anyway. If you do work for them, it sends directly from Athena through Mercury and never makes you retype any part of the report, unlike Lighthouse.
But, and this is the big issue, even if you thought those were trivial advantages, there's no way that the time spent rebooting Olympus (a 16 bit forms engine) on a 32 bit operating system is worth it. Athena is easily 10 times more stable than Olympus.
As for the Pocket Genie, your timing is impeccable. I'm looking at a message from our Pocket programmer from 4:54 pm today which indicates the final release is out for internal testing by our QA guys. That means it should be in beta testers' hands within days, and assuming they give it the OK, it could be on the street within a week or so.
Hope this all helps.
Dave
