>depends on how often you want to upgrade. they release 'new improved' versions at least once/year. if you need the changes, fine. if you expect that the current one will meet your need for 2 - 3 years, probably not worth it. (down the road you can purchase competitive upgrades for about half the original price)

Okay, thanks. I received a little more pricing info a few minutes ago. I'm still kind of stunned - just to have users able to run canned CR reports, we have to pay $300 each, it looks like. We got the entire Prof. Office 97 for that much. Ouch!