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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 94 10:47:07 BST
From: David Allan Finch - work <sarum@monosys.com>
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Subject: Re: suitable for mission critical?
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Chris Maeda <cmaeda@cs.washington.edu> writes: 

|> There is much much more to accounting than what a relational database
|> provides.  Why would you want to throw away several months of your
|> life duplicating a <$1000 software package that you don't plan to
|> market?  It's crazy.

This may be true, (and infact I would not write such a peice of
software), but in some companies 1000 USD will not be spent, they
would rather spend 1-6 months writing the software which will
cost 3 to 6 times more.


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