[John Rogers]

For the application front end and database back end, there is nothing already made you could buy and use? Even if you have to modify what and how you do things a little, off the shelf software is generally a better deal over time. For example if you pay a programmer $50 an hour for 50 hours a week for a year, the cost is $125,000 a person and there might be several required? Whoa, that is a lot of $$$$$$ but you get up and running in a week or three and then how much is that worth?

Before I retired as a senior DBA I worked for a company named Avexus (went out of business finally) and their product was $150,000 for a 25 user license and ran on Oracle and we provided support 24/7. A company in Rio Brazil had worked on the same program/database for 2 years and was about 30% finished but the IT manager talked the CEO into believing it could be finished in 6 months! 2 years later it was still not done.......