Holy grail or holy grails?

Posted by Cassius
Sep 10, 2011 at 06:41 PM

Some thoughts come to mind:

If one is never, ever, going to again use the material stored in a particular program, then crimp* away. But, if one is likely to need it sometime in the future, one needs to be aware that the program may not work in a future operating system. If one is lucky, an update will exist and one can pay for the update, but it can get costly to update all of ones CRIMPware. And, if there is no update, ...?

(In the case of software that was expensive to develop, my recommendation was to save a copy of the operating system and all of the associated software used, including, possibly, the hardware used. Much cheaper than rewriting the software.)

Of course, even if we don’t crimp, we still have the problem that whatever software (PIM) we used, its development may cease and it may by crippled or unusable in a new version of the operating system. GrandView is a good example.

* Verb form of CRIMP