Comments on: The tension between “free” and “mission-critical” http://www.yourdonreport.com/index.php/2008/03/02/the-tension-between-free-and-mission-critical/ Blogging the impact of computer-related technology trends, and whatever else catches my interest. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:22:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Eddy http://www.yourdonreport.com/index.php/2008/03/02/the-tension-between-free-and-mission-critical/comment-page-1/#comment-28316 David Eddy Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:38:25 +0000 http://www.yourdonreport.com/index.php/2008/03/02/the-tension-between-free-and-mission-critical/#comment-28316 Ed - Hopefully this will warm your heart. I'm still in the process of MANUALLY (e.g. lots of cut & paste) moving my 15 years of contact data from Chang Lab's CAT over to Marketcircle's Daylite. There's export/import, but I just don't trust such bulk processes... too much clean up. Chang Lab's gave up the ghost in maybe 1994 & I've been happily using it long past it's official "end of life" event. But now I'm really up against a hard ceiling. CAT runs on OS 9 (Classic). OS X v10.5 (Leopard) does not support Classic. Problemo. ...the price of progress. - David Ed -

Hopefully this will warm your heart.

I’m still in the process of MANUALLY (e.g. lots of cut & paste) moving my 15 years of contact data from Chang Lab’s CAT over to Marketcircle’s Daylite. There’s export/import, but I just don’t trust such bulk processes… too much clean up.

Chang Lab’s gave up the ghost in maybe 1994 & I’ve been happily using it long past it’s official “end of life” event.

But now I’m really up against a hard ceiling. CAT runs on OS 9 (Classic). OS X v10.5 (Leopard) does not support Classic.

Problemo. …the price of progress.

- David

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