Upgrade?

[PaulHoward]

I've been using ACT since 1.1 DOS! In my experience the last good version of ACT! was 6.0. I have all of them upto 9.01 and they are dogs! In fact, I still use 6.0 for mission critical projects and 9.01 for other small jobs. Now, I have a Vista machine so 6.0 is out. Is there much of a performance benefit between 9 & 10? Useful features, etc. I really don't want to layout another $150.00 or so for another disappointing, almost useless application. Sorry if it sounds like I'm running the program down; but, since I've been using it since around 1986, I've earned the right! Paul

[m4y]

If you hesitate to upgrade to ACT2008, you can download and apply latest patches for ACT2007, so it will work on a Vista computer.

Otherwise, you should have a look at new features tour to decide or not to upgrade: http://www.act.com/2008/upgrade/2007/.

[GLComputi…]

ACT! 2008 is the most stable and fastest version since 6.0... I love it and I've been using ACT! since 1.0 for DOS :-)

While 9.0 can run on Vista, 10 is a better choice and needed if planning on also upgrading Office to 2007

It does take a bit longer to open up than 6.0 but, providing you have enough RAM and a 7200 rpm or faster drive, it will be nearly as fast (faster in some areas or with a big database.

[agough@te…]

Hi Paul,

Reading the blog and see your and ACT OLDY like me!

Ive been around act since dos 1.1 days (.mcs .lcs files) instead of .dbf files.

I am hoping someone in the act community has the file import1.exe as I am going to finally upgrade to a newer crm software.

Do you or anyone you know have access to the import1.exe file (unfortunately it is not on the symantec ftp site any longert) and I have searched on google with no luck.

I would supply you with a generous cash offering if you can find teh file for me.

Cheers

Alan Gough

18008538145

[GLComputi…]

I'm pretty sure there's a copy on our internal FTP server.... nothing gets deleted from it :-)