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Latest rumor is that GoldMine 7.0.4 for both Standard Edition & Corporate Editions of GoldMine will be released in September.  This will be the first time Standard Edition customers will be able to upgrade to GoldMine 7, now using the FireBird database backend, rather than dBASE. 

I am expecting a bunch of bug fixes and support for Crystal Reports XI.

GoldMine 7.0.3 is a very good build with the exception of a sync issue, so I'm expecting that this should be rock solid and very much ready for prime time.

Latest is that GoldMine 7.0.4 will be available mid-October for Corporate Edition only.  The next upgrade for Standard Edition customers will be GoldMine 8.0 in the 2nd Quarter of 2007 although I'll guess that it'll be more like 3rd Quarter or mid-Summer.

From the FrontRange Solutions Field Service Engineer (FSE) Webinar Today:

GoldMine 7.0.4, which should make GoldMine 7 a very stable release for new customers and upgrades, is expected to be available the first week of November.

GoldMine Plus Accounting for QuickBooks 4.0 is expected to be released the week following this post, in other words, any time now!  Please see the following post for what should be in this release:

http://goldmineblog.typepad.com/the_goldmine_blog/2006/08/goldmine_plus_a.html

Also, pricing will change to a server format of $399. 

Over the next few weeks I'll be going more in depth on upgrade best practices and the benefits of upgrading to GoldMine 7.0.  My opinion at this time is that GoldMine 7.0.4 will be a great releae for both new and upgrading CE customers.  As there are still sync issues with GoldMIne 7.0.3, I still recommend that you do not upgrade if your environment requires sync.

Information from a FrontRange tech call on Friday is that new builds of GoldMine 6.7 and 7.0.4 are on the way. 

Due to numerous problems with the 6.70.61214 release I definately recommend that it not be used.  GoldMine 7.0.4 is the best in the 7.0 line but if you're on 6.70.50123 I'd stay there. 

Hopefully these new patches, due to be released in a couple of weeks, will fix a lot of the issues we're seeing in both builds. 

Rumor has it that GoldMine 8.0.3 may be released this week.  Stay tuned for any confirme news...