Now Software a ounces "NightHawk" cro -platform group calendar and contact manager

Now Software has a ounced a succe or to the venerable Now Up-to-Date %26am Contact (NUDC). Their next gen cro platform group cal and contact manager is codenamed "NightHawk" and they are previewing it at booth 2634 here at Macworld.

Aimed at enterprise and small busine users, NightHawk su orts Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Windows Vista, but will also still su ort Mac OS 10.3.9-10.4 and Windows XP and NT/2000. Migration from NUDC will be a breeze, and you'll be able to import from most other common formats, like vCard and iCal and sync with a variety of PDAs, cell phones and, of course, an iPod.

Taking a cue from A le's iTV-A leTV launch, the official name has yet to be determined and will, according to a Now rep, be a ounced at a later date - presumably before the retail boxes are printed. It's expected to ship in the ring of 2007. As I've come to expect from Now, the Mac GUI of NightHawk is a few years behind the times, but it is an improvement over NUDC and it has ta - so how bad can it be? That icon, however, has got to go.

The NightHawk calendar %26am contact module will cost $149.95 per seat and owners of NUDC v5.x and later can upgrade for $69.95 per seat. For a limited time, current NUDC v5.X owners may also purchase a one-year maintenance agreement (that's usually a codename for "pay-for-tech-su ort") for $39.95 per lice e, which will give you free upgrades to new versio of Now and NightHawk for one year from the start of the maintenance agreement.

I use NUDC personally, and have always been a fan, de ite the GUI flaws. It's one of the few holdovers from my days of using Claris Emailer for mail. I wonder how many of you long-time Mac users are also still using NUDC at home or work?