>I think you're stretching my argument to extremes again. You and I both know it would NOT take you a couple million $ and 2 years to develop a web front-end. Sheesh.

For 10,000 users? I don't know much about money, how much would you say? Remember, this needs to be 100% reliable. This is for cash registers, so teh second one of the layers breaks down (anywhere fore the 10,000 userse), a sale can't be made and that user loses money.