I make a lot of sense for understaffed small-office contractors — one place to enter data, one interface to learn, and a single set of office procedures to follow. Omware’s The Master Builder (825 Gravenstein Hwy. North, Suite 5, Sebastopol, CA 95472; 800/726-6278; www.themasterbuilder.com) has been a very good integrated solution for large and mid-size contractors since the mid- ’80s, but has been priced beyond the range of the typical small-volume builder or remodeler. That recently changed with the release of Master Builder 7, Solo Edition. As the name implies, MB7 Solo is a single-user version of Omware’s Network Edition, but it isn’t “Lite” by any means. Solo has the same interface, same core program, same basic modules, and the
