I know this sounds great, but from personal experience with a lot of electronics, and especially computer systems, I can state that I have never seen anyone support the older hardware or software for more that about two generations back from whatever is current today, unless you pay them on a time and materials basis.
I have been burned far too many time by clames of being able to upgrade, only to find out later that if the upgrade wasn't done almost right away, forget about it. Now a small company like ProfiLux may support the older products a bit longer, but the simple economic facts are that they just will not be able to afford to do it.
As i pointed out before, the technology changes very fast, and if your going to stay competitive, you must be working on the replacement products almost as soon as you ship what is current. This in turn forces changes in the hardware design, obsoletes the old hardware quickly.
Case in point. Every upgrade a mother board in a current personal computer? Even if it's only a couple of years old, and everything in the computer is up to spec, you almost always end up replacing the processor, and memory, and often the power supply in addition to the motherboard. Unless your a fanatic like myself, your better off just getting a new computer.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't get the product. Even if you can no longer upgrade the hardware or software, the controller should still work for you. I'm just sort of warning everyone not to get the product based upon emotion, but because you have some serious plans for a serious controller. Of course, having a lot of money to do this with helps ... a lot! (grin)
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But until then I'll just have to make do.
