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ACT! has a great history.
The original founders Pat Sullivan and Mike Muhney created the term Contact Management with the development of ACT!. This was later expanded to become the common terms CRM which is now sold via over 200 products around the world.
The original concept was to build a better way to keep names and addresses and a history of the relationship with our contacts.
The following is a short history of versions and the ownership changes.
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Versions
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Version history
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DOS
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ACT! 1, 1987
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April 1st
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ACT! 1.1 1988
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First Australian Version
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ACT 2, 1989
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Network version
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ACT 3, 1989
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Only was even in beta and never released due to release of Windows version 3.11
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Microsoft Windows
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ACT! for Windows 1, around 1992
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ACT! for Windows 2, 1993
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ACT! 3 for Windows 95/NT, November 1996
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ACT! 4 for Windows 95/NT, March 1998
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ACT! 5 or ACT! 2000, September 1999
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ACT! 6 or ACT! for 2004, August 2002
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ACT! 7 or ACT! 2005, August 2004
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ACT! 7 or ACT! 2005 Premium for Workgroups, August 2004
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ACT! 8 or ACT! 2006, September 2005
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ACT! 8 or ACT! 2006 Premium for Workgroups, September 2005
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ACT! 9 or ACT! 2007 Premium for Workgroups EX and ST versions, September 2005
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ACT! 10 or ACT! 2008
Versions available: Standard, Premium EX and ST versions, Premium for Web.
Released September 2007 - 10.00, 10.01 December 2007, 10.02 February 2008.
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Apple Macintosh
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ACT! 2.8 for Macintosh, August 1997
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Windows CE
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ACT! for Windows CE, July 1997
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Palm OS
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ACT! for Palm, 2002
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ACT! for Palm V2, 2006
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ACT! for Palm V3, 2008
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Product Owners
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Contact Software International, founded in 1986
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Acquired by Symantec, 1993
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Acquired by the SalesLogix Corporation, December 1999,
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SalesLogix is renamed to Interact Commerce Corporation, April, 2000
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Interact was purchased by Sage, May 2001
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Interact renamed and incorporated to 'Best Software’, July 2002
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'Best Software' renamed to 'Sage Software', March 2005
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