Thank you for your help Richard. Your generosity is appreciated. Thank you so much.
Yes the front page of the site promotes .net. Further on they say: "We have experience with multiple operating systems, web-based systems, databases, programming languages and environments, and we have a strong process-backed quality-assurance. Assembly. C, C++, Java, VB, C#, .NET, scripting, our developers are committed and professional, and love difficult problems. They have expertise that goes deep into Microsoft platforms, technologies, and frameworks, but also bring a strong knowledge and expertise in UNIX, Linux, and open source technologies. Whether you're using MySQL, MS-SQLServer, Informix, or Oracle, we know database technologies inside out." The software uses data recognition engines and data base products from several suppliers. There is extensive need for skilled manual support by trained people. Contracts probably begin at $10,000. A bank in Germany seems to have paid something like US$2 million. Another organisation data scanned several million documents, destroyed the paper archive, and recovered the costs of the changeover in six-months. Not everyone's baby. But for some businesses and many government departments this is what they'll all be doing quite quickly. In the USA for some firms, the intention is to make full data archiving compulsory. (Attempt to stop corporate fraud.) Worth a look. John
