VISTA/SFC has reached an intermediate state with respect to unrestrained industrial application. A high level of stability and robustness of operation has been achieved. Due the openness for new tools and applications, a reasonable degree of penetration of the TCAD world can be expected. As work is still in progress, a couple of issues remain to be addressed by future developments. Comparing VISTA/SFC with a generic framework like Nelsis [Dim96] gives some hints for the direction to go.