Your email reminds me of MS dropping VB6 while VB6 has been on its prime. Emile Schwarz wrote: > "Companies comes and companies goes" > > I can say the above after reading an actual thread on this list (he name > is: "Keynote" something) > > Same apply to software: > > I will only talk about Apple software I spend money with: > > AppleWorks, in 1985: the software that runs on Apple II (IIe, //c,), > > I had to get AppleWorks GS when I wanted to really use the Apple IIGS > "power". > > When the Apple II line was "scrapped" (I was working at Apple France at > this time), I had to buy another computer (a Macintosh). > > Around this date area, AppleWorks (for Macintosh) came from Claris. > > It goes to Claris when Claris became an "external" Apple Company. > > Lately, I had to buy iWork to get... NO, I DO NOT BUY IT. > > > What about more than 20 years of data (files created with these software) ? > > Do you remember Mac Write, Mac Write II, Mac Write Pro, Mac Paint, Mac > Draw, etc. ? > > None of them are still on sale. > > What about PageMaker ? QuarkXPress (yes, this still exists, but at an > expensive price tag...) > > What the demonstration want to display ? > > Simply, that I used to buy software (and not only at the computer buying > time) and I still have to do that if I want to use old data (in some > cases, when an import solution exists). > > And I am tired to waste my hard getting money. > > What if those data were accounting data ? > [this industry is country specific by nature, so there never was so many > software for Macintosh, and companies come and go...] > > Now, you have stuff to think with, enjoy! > > Emile > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > >
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