More on fP 6.0 features

[GCC Consulting]

John wrote: 

> 
> You never know. When the Doors broke up, Ray, the keyboardist 
> said to Jim Morrison. "Hey you know I think we've still got 
> some good blues albums in us..."  Too bad they didn't make 
> them. Anything can happen. One course and source of income 
> for FP Tech which would help fund new development of a new 
> filePro might be if a group of (their) programmers got 
> together and built the most complete, fully generic 
> horizontal or vertical app. One so good that it could be 
> offered on any hardware system... They sell this to the large 
> customer list they have now... along with a hardware solution 
> supported by third party. Who wouldn't want a really great 
> Accounting-Point-of-Sale system for any one of the zillions 
> of small businesses out there... It's a read-to-go market and 
> the RAD aspect of filePro could have a few offerings ready 
> pretty quickly. Why shouldn't the company rely on its own 
> product to generate income? I think this is a great place to start.
> 
In the latest Dell catalogue the are marketing a POS system using 3rd party
software and their computers.

This is a very viable market.  As I recall from my college economic classes (yea
in ancient times), there are about 7 million retail establishments in the
country, give or take a few thousand).  At least at that time the number was
relatively stable and one closed another opened. This creates a fairly fluid
market for POS systems.

One filePro user owned 5 retail stores like CVS back in the 70's.  He developed
an inventory control/order entry system which used hand helds he programmed for
inventory control.  The store dialed into the main office 3 times a week and
transmitted the stores current inventory, the data was translated, and moved
into filePro.  Inventory refills were generated and delivered the next day to
the stores.

Vendor reorders were generated and he also was able to track sales against
coupons to maximize his rebates from vendors.

We were talking about computerizing his registers using fp but he sold the
chain.

By the way,  he did all of his own programming.  He learned C and bought an
EPROM burner for programming the handhelds.

A POS system along with a complete accounting package, done modularly would be
the way to.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting