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Letter From Norm
May 1999

Dear Casual Cartographers:

It’s been a battle (perhaps more like a war with many battles) and we’re sixteen months late, but we’ve finally finished our conversion to Windows and the Internet. In the last 24 months, we’ve learned C++, Windows 95/98/NT, MFC, AutoCAD ARX, AutoCAD Release 14, Visual Basic, HTML, Front Page, and how to market products on the Internet. Ignoring the fact that it took 4 times longer than we originally thought, we’re very pleased with what we have accomplished.

Of course, the world did not stand still while we were learning/doing all of this. So now we have to learn Java, ActiveX/COM, SDTS, and a whole bunch of other stuff. But we believe we have overcome some substantial obstacles for a two person firm dedicated to Quality, Service, and Value. We sincerely hope and pray that your experiences using our products confirm our meeting our objective of providing quality software, competent and timely service, at an fair cost to you. If not, please let us know. We’d like to do what we can to rectify the situation.

In May, we expect to finish our Year 2000 testing program and publish the results in a final Year 2000 Disclosure Statement on June 1, 1999. At that time, we will then begin to develop some new products for the year 2000.

In spite of all the contradictory prognostications, there is one thing we can be sure of: Year 2000 is going to be interesting, very interesting. We’re looking forward to it as a once in a life time opportunity to demonstrate what we’re made of and what we’re capable of doing.

Norm Olsen



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