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Paul, You brought up a point that was glossed over in earlier posts. Writing and providing shareware or at cost modules. It was correctly noted that if you are an employee of a company and use company resources, anything you write belongs to the company. But back when the Earth's crust was still cooling, that did not stop Para Research, which if memory serves me is primarily a publishing company, from putting their home grown applications on the market and turning their data center into a profit center. Anybody out there have a constrained IS budget and a creative staff? Maybe you could convince the "suits" that some appropriately priced service programs could finance some internal enhancements. How about this one....hire a trainee and have them work for a year on some service programs and put them out on the market. Let's see 500,000 AS/400 where 2% purchase and pay $100 each. Now that's $1,000,000 revenue. For that return hire two <g> pcunnane@learningco.com wrote: > I think the key point has been missed here: > > Why don't you ask Microsoft to add a SetCell method to Visual Basic? > It's not gonna happen. But I betcha someone somewhere has written a > .OCX to do it. It might be free; you might have to pay for it. But > it's been done. > > <<snip>> > > +--- | This is the RPG/400 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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