From what I was told, Infor has abandoned development using ASSET for the
latest versions of its ERP solutions. The majority of the code base is
still not cleaned up and is pretty much a final dump version from ASSET.
Its still ugly as ugly gets and inefficient as inefficient can be, but at
least they have started to clean up some programs as they get a chance
(once again, from what I'm told). The ERPLX 8.3.3 code is still very
ugly, while they did some code cleanup in the way of better documentation
inside the code in some spots and cleaned up the descriptions on the
fields in the database its still a monster.
Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
570-546-4777
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Re: [BPCS-L] ASSET
ASSET is a pre-compiler which Infor-SSA used to develop a lot of its code,
for most of the versions of BPCS still in widespread use.
The theory was that BPCS could run on IBM midrange, or PC Microsoft world,
or UNIX or some other platform. Software would be written, which would
ignore the strengths of the platform, then ASSET would convert the code
into
a version to work on IBM midrange. Sales on the other platforms were
dismal, and eventually abandoned.
Some company other than Infor-SSA actually invented ASSET, licensed
Infor-SSA to use it, and supply it with some BPCS deliveries. In theory
someone could find that other company and independently get at it.
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Al Mac
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Is anybody out there still using a product called ASSET? And do you know
anything about its origins?
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