Another one bites the dust?

Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Apr 27, 2012 at 09:21 AM

Cassius wrote:
>Even if a PIM has been around a long time, development may suddenly end. Jot Plus is an
>example that I have used for years, but its developer has said he has found more
>lucrative pursuits. Yet it is still being sold on its Web site, kingstairs.com
>.
> >Serious problems include:
> >A new OS version may not support a program that has
>ceased development. Examples: GrandView, GoBack.
> >The solution in this case is to,
>if possible, keep the old computer and OS, just in case you need the material you stored
>in the moribund PIM, or only use PIMs that can export to a standard program such as Word,
>and do the export in the old OS where the moribund PIM still works. (Luckily, GV files
>can be converted and imported into Inspiration with rather good results.)
> >In
>government and industry, new OS and software versions can result in extreme expenses
>and errors when a model developed in an earlier version of an OS or program (e.g.,
>Excel) has to be rewritten for the new versions. My approach, in cases when the model
>was unlikely to be used much, or at all, was to keep the old computer with the old OS and
>software rather than to rebuild the model. Of course, this only works if the original
>model builders DOCUMENT the OS and software they used. Regrettably, this
>often/usually doesn’t happen.
>

Huh. So that’s why so many government departments still runs Windows 2000