@ub and @cb issues - an idea

[Kenneth Brody]

GCC Consulting wrote:
[...]
> Don't assume anything.  This was Win NT and not *nix.  Version was 4.8 not 5.
> Win98 clients.
> 
> This company spent over $150,000 to rewrite the application in using Sybase.
> They paid me to create various ASCII output files to be imported by their new
> app.  This went on for almost a year.  I would get a call, create the processing
> and e-mail it to them.
[...]

Ah, yes.  Spend $150,000 to rewrite the system from scratch, rather than
spend $10,000 to keep filePro and switch to *nix.  (Or even less to simply
upgrade to 5.0 filePro.)

Reminds me of the government agency that spent several _million_ of our
tax dollars over several _years_ in a vain attempt to replace a filePro
application with Oracle.

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