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   From: gordonbparker@yahoo.com   
      
   On 17/11/2010 10:46, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > Or you could experience the version of obsolescence that Microsoft laid upon   
   > its "Plays For Sure" partners when it stuck the Zune knife in their backs.   
   >   
      
   I agree, but the point of this (sub) thread, until the idiot Hardon   
   tried to change it, is that if a software vendor goes bust, (and I've   
   seen this happen, no matter what the moron quark thinks), and the data   
   from the particular application sold by that Vendor (in this case   
   accounting software) is in a proprietary (to that application) format,   
   then it's going to be either very very expensive, or possibly   
   impossible, for an SME to get that data ported to some other format.   
      
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