It was as simplistic I could get without writing a friggin' whitepaper, Al (lol). Economies of scale come into play depending on client size, scope of application, ratio of business needs to those met by the application, external systems requirements, etc etc etc....

>That's *way* too simplistic, IMHO. Your client needs to look at the big picture and figure out the payback period of an app in toto. In a lot of cases it's *very* easy to justify box replacement.