fP modernization

[Walter Vaughan]

Larry Weaver Sr wrote:

> The next question, obviously, is where do 
> we go? Who has ideas and/or comments??

Ideas?

Well I have been a part of a almost year long professional RFI/RFQ process. I 
can tell you from experience that replacing a custom filePro system is not easy 
nor cheap.

I read recently there is three costs to any software solution.
1) Aquisition cost
2) Maintanance cost
3) Exit cost

What kills today is that there are no tools to transition anything "filePro" 
into any thing else. Don't like MS-WORD? There are dozens of appliations that 
will read the file format. Think this hurts MS? Nah, actually the opposite.

Exit cost is by far the most expensive piece, unless plan for exit in the future.