Re: Mapics & Java. Rant mode *OFF.

[Wynn Osborne <wynn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave wrote:

>Although in the past there was good reason for your point, I submit that you
>cannot have looked at any recent release of MAPICS if you feel that strongly
>that it is "garbage"...

>If your experience with MAPICS was MAPICS II when it was so screwed up, or
>during the teething woes of MAPICS/db Mod Level 3, I understand where your
>opinion that it's garbage came from.  However, Mod Level 3 was cleaned up in
>1993, and MAPICS II has been a dead horse since 1989.  In 1998, MAPICS XA is
>a good product with a lot of value - don't condemn it without really looking
>at it.

Great point and I stand corrected. MAPICS I & II were garbage. I have no
knowledge of the product past that.

Trivia: I quit a job one time due to MAPICS and moved down the road to get
away. Feeling cocky that "those days" were behind me, seven years later my
company decides to purchase another company. I get the honor of modifying
the new company's S/38 software so that it would run on our AS/400. What
was the software:

MAPICS I!

Programmer's rule #107) Remember: Things can always be *Worse*.

Wynn Osborne

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