When it comes to cross-version compatibility between InterPlot Organizer client and InterPlot Server, we design and certify only the "older (V8i) client" to "newer (CONNECT) plot server" scenario. Our goal has traditionally been to allow client workstations to be one version older than the plot servers to allow groups of client computers to be upgraded in phases. We have traditionally done this by designing the data streams sent to the plot server to be upwardly compatible. We don't really certify the opposite situation of "newer (CONNECT) client" to "older (V8i) InterPlot server". However, that being said, our data formats between client and server did not have any breaking changes that I can think of, so this combination might possibly work (but again is not something we have tested). Regarding the InterPlot driver products, the situation depends a bit on the operating systems being used. Our currently released InterPlot driver products were not certified for the newer client operating systems like Windows 10. Thus, you cannot connect from a Windows 10 client to a Windows 2008 InterPlot Server (that has InterPlot driver queues) and have it work (because the driver pulled from the plot server to the client is not compatible with Windows 10). That is why we are working so hard to get the InterPlot driver products released and updated. But, if you are just going from Windows 7 to a Windows 2008 Server, then that would not be an issue because the InterPlot Driver products support both of those operating systems.
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