new company - seperate environment or share environment

["Jon Le Roi" <jleroi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Tegal is on release 5.5 of XA (yeah, alright so we still call it MAPICS
like everyone else)

In the past, Tegal has created separate environments for each
company/subsidiary that was created. At one point, we had 7 separate
production environments (each with a separate currency). We are down to
3 active production environments and I have been informed that we will
need to create a new company for a new subsidiary in France (quickly of
course). I am wondering if it would make more sense to add a new company
to our existing primary environment as compared to creating a new
environment. All items exist in the primary environment and then get
created as they are needed into the subsidiaries. This has been
automated to a point but has led to many a problem over the past couple
of years. 

Any thoughts, suggestions, warnings.... would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

Jon Le Roi
Director of I.T.
Tegal Corporation