Hi Sam I write terrible verbose emails, I did not want to lower the signal-to-noise on the list hopefully this is okay.... My business model follows something like this. I would like to offer scientists tools to control their instruments, plot their data and analyze it. There are already enough open source tools to put something together but it would have to be a pre-fabricated one size fits all solution because these people don't have time to learn to program in C/C++. I was hoping to use HTML as a way to allow the scientists to customize things for themselves. Anyone can pick up HTML in a few days or less, especially with a template. I don't think there is a much of a market helping scientists with HTML. However in order to control their instruments they will need the "command set" to communicate with it. I have lots of expensive proprietary software and instruments too . By eavesdropping on the communication I can recreate the "command sets". It is these commands that are worth paying someone to help with. The software applications this project is trying to replace cost between $5k to 40K. Charging let's say $80-100 an hour would not be unreasonable to come up with a customized solution that eliminates the proprietary software and creates only what the customer needs without bloat. Does this seem logical? Thanks very much for your feedback-Patrick