Invisible wrote:
> Now, if the program did this especially well, you could understand my 
> company deciding to use it.

It used to be all the shizzle ten or twelve years ago. All kinds of 
stuff interfaced with it, including form letter generation, tickler 
files, etc. Everyone tried to be compatible with ACT!

> The program keeps a local database in some undocumented proprietry 
> format. 

According to wikipedia, it's MS SQL Server. Are you running a recent 
version, or the Win 3.1 version? :-)

> Yes, you heard me correctly. In the year 2008, people are trying to 
> manually synchronise seperate databases by sending diffs back and forth 
> by email. 

Kind of makes sense if you think about traveling salesmen with 
disconnected laptops adding new contacts that other people don't really 
need to see promptly.  Needing to manually import the stuff seems kind 
of odd.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
  Helpful housekeeping hints:
   Check your feather pillows for holes
    before putting them in the washing machine.

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