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--- In firebird-job-board@yahoogroups.com, "smc3bell"
<dennis.bell@...> wrote:

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> Steelville Mfg is in Steelville, MO USA. We are a machine shop.

A: Retail then.

> My current application has about 40 users(all internal)

A: We have also customers with more than 50 users on thin client tech

> and has outgrown Paradox. I plan to put Firebird on a LINUX server.

A: Congratulations - a good reliable choice

> The ap consist of 1 menu with about 103 forms,reports, and scripts.

A: Going from paradox to sql mean's a serious refactoring. Aplix is
experienced ERP developer for the romanian market since 1999.

> I'm looking for a developer/consultant to help put together the new
> menu and main core items using a development tool.

A: In my personal opinion, You will not have such time to use an
itegrated development tool, unless you'r development department
consists in 5-10 people, but a hi-tech environment and good knowledge
of bussiness requirement's. In client/server the big pain come's when
refactoring is needed often.

> I haven't yet decided what development tool to use.

And also Aplix is client/server Delphi based development tools
developer (RAD tools and Entity/relationship diagrammer tool), rights
management & generation tools for SQL servers (for internal use).
If interested, place a request to send you a demo.

> My goal is to then manage and upgrade the application in house.

As W Churchill said : "never did so few so much for so many". But get
used with idea of mantaing - I don't think you'll have time for the
main development. Am I wrong?

Our suplementary questions :
- How you qualify the coverage of you'r system now : ERP/SCM/CRM/MRP +BI?
- Have you wrote the software specification document? Or it must be
done "on the fly".
- How much time do you have?
- Can you outsource the main core development?
- How you qualify you'r experince in SQL?
Best regards,
Doru Ilasi - Aplix