A little while ago I was sent a document which has the release dates for every release of Great Plains/Microsoft Dynamics GP from version 1.0 to the current version 10.0.
I thought it would be a fun exercise to post a summary of this timeline so you can get an idea of the wealth of history behind the product.
Product Released Release Date Dynamics Release 1.0 February 1993 Dynamics Release 2.0 & Dynamics C/S+ Release 2.0 31 May 1994 Dynamics Release 2.04 & Dynamics C/S+ Release 2.04 February 1995 Dynamics Release 2.11 & Dynamics C/S+ Release 2.11 18 Septemer 1995 Dynamics Release 2.20 & Dynamics C/S+ Release 2.20 04 December 1995 Dynamics Release 3.0 & Dynamics C/S+ Release 3.0 09 May 1996 Dynamics C/S+ for SQL Release 3.15 November 1996 Dynamics C/S+ for SQL Release 3.17 26 March 1997 Dynamics C/S+ ISAM Release 3.20 19 May 1997 Dynamics (LAN) Release 4.0 August 1997 Dynamics (SQL) Release 4.0 17 October 1997 Dynamics Release 5.0 & Dynamics C/S+ Release 5.0 09 September 1998 Dynamics Release 5.1 & Dynamics C/S+ Release 5.1 12 January 1999 Dynamics Release 5.5 & eEnterprise Release 5.5 18 August 1999 Dynamics Release 5.51 October 1999 Dynamics Release 6.0 & eEnterprise Release 6.0 24 July 2000 Dynamics Release 7.0 & eEnterprise Release 7.0 25 June 2002 Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains Release 7.5 8 April 2003 Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains Release 8.0 2 June 2004 Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 17 November 2005 Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 04 May 2007 Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 (11.0) 01 May 2010
Product Released
Make sure you look at the GP Logos through the years post if you have not seen it already.
Please post a comment to let me know what version you first worked with and when.
David
20-Apr-2010: Updated for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010.
Hi David,
Its really nice to know the release dates of all the versions of GP.
I started my career with GP 7.5 from April 2006.
Looking at David Musgrave's timeline of GP releases , I'm reminded that I started working with
Taught my first Dexterity class in Fall of 1992 prior to 1.0 release of Dynamics. I still have a chance to catch up with a few folks in those first classes, from time to time.
If we are going to show how old we are....
I looked at Dynamics 1.0 with my partner, but decided at the time not to get involved (my partner had just had a number of bad experiences with other accounting software and did not want a repeat performance). We saw potential and decided to wait for the next version.
When Dynamics 2.0 came out we decided that this was a product worth getting involved with and signed up as a partner. For many years, Sequel Technology was the exclusive partner for Western Australia.
It was in 1994 when I flew from Perth to Melbourne for the first Dexterity class to be run outside of Fargo. It was also Kevin Kidder's first international trip. This is when I started working with Dexterity 2.04.
I started working with Dynamics in 2000 although I still support clients on 5.5. Microsoft had just bought out Great Plains I believe and 6.0 had just been released. Went to convergence in....2002 and learned about Lewis and Clark. I was prepped before I went to the keynote to expect nothing about Dynamics, accounting, Great Plains etc. so that helped. I kind of miss those type of keynotes now.
I go back to 1993. I always think of version 1.0 as a 'good idea'.
My first install was for a real estate investor who had 32 partnerships. It was back then that I learned all about macros.
That client is still using GP and now has 164 databases.
David, you and I met at Tech Conference just after you left Sequel Technology. You introduced me to Mark Rockwell who had just gone out on his own too.
Gracious, has it really been that long?
Many people who have not been working with Microsoft Dynamics GP since the early non-SQL versions of
Hi David
Wasn't 3.15 a Dynamics rather than Dynamics C/S+ for SQL release? And wasn't there a 3.10 release for multicurrency?
Matt
Hi Matt
There was a controlled release of 3.10 to customers and partners for Purchase Order Processing (POP). As it was not a general release I did not add it to the timeline.
3.15 was definately a SQL release. This was the first SQL release that had performance issues and so was followed fairly quickly with 3.17. See the post below for more info:
http://blogs.msdn.com/developingfordynamicsgp/archive/2008/10/06/what-do-the-zdp-auto-generated-stored-procedures-do.aspx
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