Dennis, I had a customer who put out an RFP a few years ago for a new database system, because the board of directors had never heard of R:BASE and didn't like paying the bills. (One director said something like "my brother-in-law says he could do it in Access.")
My response to the RFP (to basically upgrade R:BASE and add many features to what they had already) came in at less than 25% of the lowest bid from the cheapest of the other vendors offering to redo the whole system with various "free" or non-free DBMS systems. The cost of the software, in the end, hardly matters, because most of the investment is in the development of that "front end", not in the software you use to build it. Bill On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Dennis Fleming <[email protected]> wrote: > One of my customers asked why we don't switch to a "free" data base product > like MySQL or SQL Lite. > I'm suspicious when it comes to a free lunch. > I told them that even if we did the conversion I would still need to > rewrite the frontend. All the forms, reports, graphs, object code, etc. > And, I'm dubious about the multi user capability. > Any other supportive info is appreciated. > > Dennis > ***** > Dennis Fleming > IISCO > www.TheBestCMMS.com > Phone: 570 775-7593 > Mobile: 570 351-5290 > > >
