RE: Lawson?

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After looking at their code I can understand why they are behind.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Damato [mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 4:18 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Lawson?


I depends what you mean by "happy".  We were running Lawson on the AS/400
for a while, but just upgraded (re-implemented) onto Unix and Oracle.  The
primary motivation was the fact that Lawson remains 12 - 18 months behind on
their applications releases for the AS/400.  About five years ago their
AS/400 development strategy fell apart, when the anticipated announcement of
release 7.0 turned into an announcement that they were going to fall back
and regroup.  About two years ago they announced that they were bringing
AS/400 applications development in line with Unix and NT.  These days AS/400
apps releases are a couple steps back, but moving at the same pace.  I don't
know if they ever intend to get all platforms to simultaneous releases.

Lawson ran pretty well on the AS/400.  I didn't think I was happy until we
moved it to Unix and Oracle, and I learned the true depths of despair.

I've jumped on this soapbox too many times on public forums.  Please feel
free to reply off-list if you'd like more information.

James Damato
Manager - Technical Administration
Dollar General Corporation
<mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com>


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Beck [mailto:CBeck@good-sam.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:12 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Lawson?


Is anyone out there running Lawson on a 400?   Are you happy with it?  

Chris 


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