PARIS – Oxford County commissioners are considering upgrading the county’s computer system to prepare for when the current one is no longer serviceable.

Depending on software, installation of a new system may cost the county more than $100,000 annually for the first three years.

Phil Sharp, a representative of Tyler Technologies of Falmouth, recently provided a review of a system for the county’s accounting department, intended to upgrade the present system, which will be out of date in a few years.

“Your current system will be cut off in the future for service,” Sharp told commissioners at their meeting last week.

Sharp’s proposed system would would eliminate the need for new hardware because all the county’s data would be housed in the company’s $1.7 million facility in Falmouth.

Sharp told commissioners that while other systems may be less expensive, this system can be expanded throughout the county, including into schools.

“As you grow and the community grows it may be something to tackle,” he said of the expansion possibility.

Because the server would be housed in Falmouth, any information can be made available despite conditions in Paris.

“I can do your payroll in Falmouth,” Sharp said. All information is encrypted and backed up in the headquarters in Westborough, Mass.

The system is used in Aroostook, Cumberland and Knox counties along with about 60 other places in Maine and 1,400 businesses across the country.

Commissioners said they will review the proposals and discuss it later.

The county has not made many technological changes, Sharp said, because of the cost and lack of a real need.