>Does someone else now have ownership or maintenance responsibilities for the product?

Someone needs to either buy the product or create a joint venture with Jim to update and maintain the product. I have some very clear needs for something like this, but I sure am not going to use a product where there is a single person that nobody can ever find or communicate with in any formal way.

In some cases where I have this need I will move the data to SQL Server for other reasons. But I sure don't want to make that $$ decision on a specifc app based solely on a text search requirement.