>If you inherited yesterday complete or majority ownership of say one insurance company, so every IT related expence as from tmrw would hv been directly deducted from your profits;
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>Under presumption that there is line of of mission critical projects needed as they say 'for yesterday' ;
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>Which DevTool/Database Platform would you be willing to pay for right now ?
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>You know your fees, you know complexities, so be honest.
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>I understand your question, but the problem is that there are so many major factors that you didn't cover. You haven't mentioned anything about the types of applications, user install base, environment, etc.

You are right

To be precise;
Let's exclude Web commercial apps, What is needed is old fashioned
day-to-day business automation.
Single location, up to 100 users, crunching day-to-day business , high speed data entries, lot of data munging/manipulation, automations, high degree of cross system integration, cross database consolidated reporting etc.

You are new owner/boss not develping anymore
what would you use / be willing to pay ?