>Read "Things You Should Never Do, Part I", by Joel Spolsky, http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html, for an example from Netscape. Search for "rewrite" in that site's archives for articulate apologies for favoring old code.
Interestingly more recently: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/20030601.html
They changed the name to firefox which you can download here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
From using the above for the previous year or so it is markedly superior to ie(tabbed browsing, inbuilt search bar for google, ebay, dictionary lookups, popup blocking). Sadly it is likely only to ever have <5% market share.
On the original point of dawn collecting material for future flame wars on comp.databases.theory: choosing only the failed conversions and ignoring the successful conversions will quickly be exposed. A much better tactic is to stay positive and sell the benefits of whatever solution you are pushing, this would involve showing how easy it is convert to and from mv systems to other existing systems.
A list of conversion failures might have nasty unintended consequences: it would show a future prospective mv customer once they chose a mv solution there was no way ever they would be able to leave.
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