The way the government works, is you get funding for a requirement. If the requirement doesn't change, you do NOT get additional funding. So if they bought Novel to automate their purchase requests, etc. then that's what they have.
It might even be word perfect
I ran into this with Congress all the time when I was purchasing IT for the military. If the mission (requirement) didn't change, there was no funding for replacing 'obsolete' equipment - it wasn't obsolete when you bought it.
Makes a certain amount of sense at some level. If you loved your smartphone when you bought it, just remember that 2 years from now when your contract is up
== John ==
