In message of 21 Jun, Paul Vigay <lists-nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 100 customers each paying £100 for an update would bring in £10,000 > which might contribute to a few months programming.... When I retired in 2000 the going rate for a contract programmer was a mere £250 a day. Shall we say that it might, just be a bit more now? So £10K is a 40 days work, not quite two months, and probably less than that at current daily rates. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@xxxxxxxxx For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling