I suggest that anyone who doesn't have a good answer to both TCO and ROI is destined to fail in nearly every instance. In fact poor answers to these two models, or worst yet, never thinking them through, is the primary reason there are so many unsatisfied development software customers. Among the business firms which seem to be on top of this issue are KPMG Consulting and the DuPont Company. Return to the top of this page . OK, business school is not why we're here today.
Lets get to the fun part of selecting a development software program.
Actually many things required by a development department can be done using such offerings as Microsoft 's Office 98 or 2,000. For those wishing a more complete relational database, you'll want to know that FileMakerPro is also cross-platform and multiplatform and works very well with webpage authoring software. I should mention that there are still other suites which in many cases are for the Mac or Windows only. I've cited a few that are available for both platforms. Done right the data can be saved and transferred to more sophisticated program at a later date.