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YAG - How's it feel to be the one
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From
02/05/2007 19:31:00
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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02/05/2007 19:16:19
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01204014
Message ID:
01222037
Views:
21
Bruce,

I don't think your story is unique. The vast majority of business in the USA is small business and the vast majority of small business has fewer than five employees. Joe who fixes the trucks is interested in computers but he's never heard of msconfig and expects you to walk him through it. If you're not charging, an upgrade that requires this for every customer could knock you out of business. Even if you do charge, a support call that would be regarded as a trifle by a Corporate may be a big problem for a small business customer who considers that you chose the technology so if it keeps breaking, that's your problem. "Heck, if the awnings we supply kept breaking every 5 minutes, I gotta fix 'em for free, and so do you." So it's a completely different prospect- and one that will receive increasing attention now that the corporate market is saturated by IT services, and providers are switching target to small business.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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