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In doing so, I too am trying to prioritize our efforts, not to think of everything, and I don’t want to stop achievable pragmatic undertakings.

Is our best course to use existing proprietary software to reduce costs? I don’t think we can responsibly answer this question without knowing more both about the costs and benefits of upgrading our current installations and the costs, capacities, and potential benefits of an alternative system.

Most of us have probably owned a car and made the judgment that growing repair costs and better performance by affordable alternatives make it sensible to get something newer. Unlike cars, which year by year tend to get more expensive, the price of software systems tends to go down while their affordances increase and usability improves. It is a legitimate question to ask why we should consider it pragmatic to tinker out of obsolescence proprietary software developed some time ago by a company specializing in turnkey systems for golf clubs.

What sort of undertakings are pragmatically achievable for Windrows in the area of technology? Windrows is a small organization, with annual revenues of $11,000,000. And technologically relatively simple, for we do not have to manage complex inventories, conduct R&D against a tight schedule of milestones and deliverables, or comply with the exacting regulations complicating defense or medical work. Small and simple, it is pragmatically achievable for Windrows to participate fully in the fruits of systemic innovation accruing in recent decades.

We can get

Over the past few decades computer-based affordances of great potential interest and value to a residential community such as Windrows have extensively developed and become widely available, powering most of what one can interact with over and through the internet.

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