Thus it was written in the epistle of Richard Gambrell,
>
> One strategy is if your stuck with it, then at least take advantage of what
> power and capabilities it does have. Sell management on the budget
> requirements as cheaper than a horde of Cobol programmers. If the data
> structures are designed well, PH allows you to make changes and implement new
> functions quickly and easily.   You can get PH windows client for
> client/server; you can make reports available via the web with easily learned
> techniques (and apache); etc.

That works until I have to sell management on the cost of upgrading my 3000.
Cheaper doesn't really work in this case as they weren't likely to give me a
hoard of programmers, either! :-).  Since we are going to need to upgrade
someday and since there is no way it's going to happen with the "C" prices
I'm not likely to try to sell anybody on the features and my boss and I are
working on a plan for getting out from under the yoke.  Who knows, perhaps
we'll make it :-).

> Richard 'feeling the pain of PH withdrawal' Gambrell

Ted 'would love to be going through PH withdrawal' Ashton
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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When asked what it was like to set about proving something, the
mathematician likened proving a theorem to seeing the peak of a mountain and
trying to climb to the top. One establishes a base camp and begins scaling
the mountain's sheer face, encountering obstacles at every turn, often
retracing one's steps and struggling every foot of the journey. Finally when
the top is reached, one stands examining the peak, taking in the view of the
surrounding countrysideand then noting the automobile road up the other
side!
                        -- Kleinhenz, Robert J.