Re: Switching alarm system - can I convert my database?

[Tommy <tommy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Pat Coghlan <news@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:00d044b6$0$28079$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> We are upgrading our commercial alarm & access control system to one
> sold by another vendor.  Our current system has a database consisting
> of our cardholders, alarm point descriptions, instructions etc. which
> we'd like to "mine" and copy to our new system.
>
> The software licence seems to restrict us from doing anything but
> operate our current system.  Does anyone know of a situation where
> this type of data mining has resulted in litigation over infringement
> of a software licence?
>

Without knowing any specifics, all we can give is general advice. Does
your current software have have any export functions? if you can export
to excel or to a text file you might be able to cut and paste some of
your information. Does your new software have a conversion utility?

you are probably still looking at some manual entry. No pain no gain