The answer is – it isn’t possible. «No one’s ever on an old version of Salesforce.com because Salesforce.com is multitenant, that is everybody shares the same servers, so when those servers are upgraded, everybody’s upgraded.»
Naturally, when a perplexed customer asked me whether «Navatar runs on an older version of Salesforce,» I became very curious about what could have prompted that question.
When the customer revealed that a consulting firm had advised him about Navatar being on an older version, the mystery began to unfold. Basically, consultants and systems integrators make money customizing software. Some of them don’t like Navatar’s pre-built software for financial firms (built on the Salesforce platform) since it reduces the hours they can bill to a customer. To steer the customer away from off-the-shelf products, they feed false information so they can make money re-inventing the wheel.