Hi Charlie,
>Just as an alternative approach, buy it yourself and ballyhoo how
>>much time it saves you. You just might humiliate him into getting
>>up to the 1980s, when the transition between tool cost ($XXXXX)
>>versus engineer productivity improvements had begun to turn the
>>corner (for even mid scale companies, one seat shared over several
>>engineers).
>
> Ah, but it doesn't help that I am married to her... ;-)
Then argue with the additional time you may spent with her... If this is not a valid argument you should invest a lot more in your partnership, a lost one will be much more expensive...
Marte