FrontRange have announced their intention to release one more GoldMine 6.x update. It will be version 6.8 and is slated to be released late this year. I believe a more realistic timeframe is probably some time in the first quarter of 2006. It’s been stated that this will be a nod to dBase users who are enrolled in the UPP program but haven’t seen an update in quite some time. It is also supposed to trickle down some GoldMine 7.0 features to 6.x/dBase users. I’m holding out hope for a couple of my favorite features (more on that once 7.0 is released and I can talk about some of them!)

Regardless of the number of gee-whiz features GoldMine 6.8 includes and regardless of exactly WHEN it’s released, I see this as a win-win move for FrontRange’s PR and for their customers. Since GoldMine 7.0 will be a ‘Corporate Edition’ ONLY release, 6.8 will give the dBase users who didn’t get caught up in the whole 10-user cut-off upgrade-or-else campaign (they’re backing down on that, it appears!) — until 7.1 is released (rumored to be the first 7.x version to allow ‘Standard Edition’ users into the 7.0 club.)