Hello fellow listers!

We have a sister corporation that I provide IT oversight for that is 
looking for a trucking application (handles dispatching of truck loads). 
Since I could not find anything like this on the HP3000, the trucking 
company manager is looking at some PC-based applications.  He had one 
application demo'd on Tuesday and invited me to see it.  It was plain 
from the start that the application was *not* Windows-based, and when 
I asked the salesman, he confirmed that it was DOS-based, but "it runs 
fine on Windows 95/98/NT".

My gut-level reaction was that we should not buy any application that 
is supposed to run on a server and is DOS-based.  Is there any basis 
for my feeling, other than FUD?  IOW, what do you think about buying 
DOS-based apps at this stage of the PC's development?

Jim Phillips                            Manager of Information Systems
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Phone: (330) 527-2124                   P. O. Box 285
  Fax: (330) 527-2123                   Garrettsville, Ohio  44231