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The people who like SKY 8 love it. A few of us have had problems with it freezing up, and we have to ask Kamm to unfreeze it.
Kamm’s website may say that only SKY 8 is available, although at least one person on this list got him to sell her SKY 7 when she had repeated problems with SKY 8 freezing up.
Of the big 3 on the market, I believe SKY is the only one that still has developer support.
~Judi
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And regarding Cindex, Maria Sullivan is going to be offering support services and there is a link on the page Shmuel references about that.
For Sky, pricing for people upgrading from a previous version has always been less expensive than buying a new version. So if you buy Sky 8, I would expect that you would pay less to upgrade to the new version than you would to buy it in the first place.
As far as Sky v. Cindex, I would pick the one that makes the most sense to your brain and how you work. Unless you plan to do a lot of legal indexing, in which case I would encourage you to get Cindex. That’s much more common among legal indexers and would make future collaborative projects easier.
Maria
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Maria I'm curious why legal indexers use Cindex more than others - do you know? (Not that it means much to me personally. I don't do legal indexing and have no inclination to! I'm just curious :) )
Siusan
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Legal publishers tend to use Cindex. So for example I have done work for several legal publishers that involve moving files back and forth. They want you to use Cindex. I actually bought Cindex and used it for one client to do a weekly legal newsletter for them for a couple of years. And another client had to take special steps to get files ready for me to import into Sky and then do extra work after to convert back.
Cindex handles large files better than Sky, I’m also told. And some legal projects involve sets of books with 50+ volumes, so that becomes important.
There are probably other reasons, but I know that Cindex is much more the norm in the legal world.
Maria
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You can buy either version. If you click the orange “Order Now” button, you can select whether you want 7 or 8. (I keep both on my machine, although 7 is the version I use most often.)
Erika
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