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When I went to the Mac I bought Photoshop and used Bridge for management, still keeping the image files in a folder hierarchy. I kept my image files in a folder hierarchy.

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When I first went to digital photography I still was Windows computer based. Basically every IBM product I ever bought ended up being abandoned. And they also abandoned a tape backup program for OS/2 before they abandoned OS/2. They also had a good website design program for home users that they abandoned. With Visual Age the product was originally low enough priced for non-corporate users but the successor was much more expensive. Nobody has ever been fired for buying IBM, but this doesn't extend to their home products. However ownership has moved from Oracle to Apache which did delay their release schedule. Luckily Netbeans is cross platform (I've used it under Windows, macOS, and Linux) and still being developed and supported so I don't feel that I will be orphaned again.

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Now the cost of the software went from about $100/year to free, but the quality and power is much reduced, so I'm not a happy camper. So now I use NetBeans, which contrary to the name has minimal Java Bean support. But then Borland also switched to Eclipse. I was making major use of Java Beans which was well supported in Visual Age, but also supported in Borland JBuilder, so I switched to Borland. IBM abandoned the product (which was actually written in Smalltalk) for Eclipse, which I've never liked.

I can still run it on a Windows 2000 virtual machine, but it is locked in to an old Java version. I used IBM's Visual Age for Java, which was the most advanced IDE at the time and in many respects the most advanced IDE ever. I started writing programs in Java in the late 1990s. The successors to macOS Mojave, in 2019, no longer support 32-bit applications, and this is a problem. And, of course, this software could still fail with future OS versions. Now that Apple is going to ARM processors, that is another change which would be difficult because of my reliance on discontinued/abandoned software that only runs on Intel Macs. Each of those changes has generally meant a complete change of application software and, more often than not, new file formats. I've gone from IBM 360 (and punched cards) to DEC PDP-11 to TRS-80 to CP/M to MSDOS and Windows with a stint using OS/2 and now for the past 15 years the Apple Mac. So here are some issues I've had and am having, personally. I think that now that I am retired, and older, it's becoming particularly irritating. But the effect on one's workflow is also an issue. Of course data stored in proprietary formats is the riskiest problem. But it's always disconcerting when long used programs go away. I've used computers for over 50 years so I've seen my share of computer programs, and computers, come and go.

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