Essentially Cinderella is for Home Users and Small Businesses.
People who do not have enormous resources or specialist data processing skills available.
At one stage a fairly formal series of classifications based on a series of scenarios, was produced.
Cinderella operates between Classes 0 and Class 4. We refer to the others as "Mainstream"
Cinderella status start with Class 2. Anything above Class 4 is mainstream, and not a Cinderella candidate.
Y2K Cinderella Object Classes: 0 is good, 9 is bad. Class 0 - no date requirements Class 1 - manageable date problem, existing solutions Class 2 - uncertainty with some applications Class 3 - uncertainty and massive volume Class 4 - All of the above, plus Economic restraints to mainstream options. Non-standard unique approach needed Class 5 - System or Application Developers. New Techniques. Class 6 - "Vanilla" Mainstream Scenario. Class 7 - Additional problem of Missing Critical Components. Class 8 - Architectural Migration. Class 9 - Terminal case. No solution possible.