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I'm in the position to suggest/propose performance standards for future contracts and I'm wondering what constitutes a 'reasonable' amount of time.

I'm talking about NOT getting systems whose reports average 3-18 hours to run (yes, I said HOURS), screens that take upwards of 2-3 minutes to display, etc.

We're talking Novell 3.x, 4.x networks, individual workstations are (on average) 486-66 DX's 16 M RAM and we run VFP, VFP/Sybase, MicroFocus COBOL, and will soon be stepping off into VB combing with various backends. I'm looking for suggestions, recommendations, etc..... especially for languages other than VFP/FP. Any help would be appreciated.