As a PastPerfect client, I just received the following email from President Richard Hilton. I wanted to post it here to help disseminate information and stop rumors.
The curatorial department and the library both use this software, and we cannot say enough about how wonderful it is to use. It is easy to train new volunteers and interns, and the tech support is phenomenal.
We have no complaints and will continue to use this software to keep track of Stark County's historical treasures!
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Open Letter to PastPerfect Customers:
It has come to our attention that
our competitors have been disseminating misleading information about PastPerfect
Software. It is unfortunate that a company would employ a desperate tactic of
fear to try and make sales at the expense of our PastPerfect users.
It
is true that Microsoft will stop providing technical support for Visual FoxPro
on January 13, 2015. However this will have no effect on PastPerfect. Microsoft
has never provided support to users of PastPerfect or any other products
developed with FoxPro. Their support has only been available to software
engineers at companies like PastPerfect who create applications. Our programmers
fully understand the FoxPro language and have not required any help from
Microsoft for over 10 years. And since all the new products we are now
developing are not based on FoxPro, we will have no need of their help in the
future.
To be clear, PastPerfect version 4 and version 5 will continue
to work fine on January 14th and for many years to come. PastPerfect works on
all current versions of Windows including the latest version 8.1 and we have
been assured that it will work on Windows 10 whenever that is
released.
We also realize that FoxPro is not the future of software
development. Therefore in 2012 we began working on new products using state of
the art web-based development tools including, HTML, CSS, PHP and SQL server
databases. Our goal is to provide a seamless, inexpensive migration path for
current PastPerfect users who want to move with us into the future. Next month
we will release the first in this line of products, a brand new PastPerfect
Online. This web hosted application will replace and enhance the original
PastPerfect Online product that was created in FoxPro. Next year we will
complete development of the core PastPerfect collection management software.
Our mission at PastPerfect has always been to provide that best possible
software at an affordable price with exceptional customer service. As our new
software products become available we will provide current users an easy and
affordable way to migrate without losing valuable data and images or having to
retrain staff. We will continue to support PastPerfect version 4 and 5. No one
will be left without support or forced to upgrade.
With kind
regards,
Richard L. Hilton
President
PastPerfect Software,
Inc.
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