Tom wrote:
> I don't think I have ever heard of a company, which is not specifically
> in the computer business, successfully selling internally developed
> systems to the outside world.

There have been quite a number of successfully "spun off" application
packages that started out as in-house applications.  The key though is that
all the successful cases involved the company that developed the software
*becoming* a "computer business" as a result.

G.