As the support for Netvet dwindles, any practice using this software becomes vulnerable to data loss. As anyone who has suffered a hard disk crash or system failure has experienced, the damage to the practice and loss of data can be disastrous and the effects are long felt.

Netvet, whilst having a lifetime that most software products would be envious of, does have limitations in terms of its ability to change and grow in order to meet VPMS requirements into the future. For example, interacting with financial software, direct exchange with silicon chip registries, drug wholesalers and pathology labs, web interaction and heaven forbid, any changes to the tax system!