Re: COMMON Question Was: Congrads John Earl!

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Paul Nelson wrote:

>
> Where do the IT managers go nowadays? To the packaged software company
> conferences. How many remember that it was either last fall or the year
> before that SSA held their BPCS user group meeting the exact same week as
> the COMMON conference? Whether it was an accident or intentional, that had
> to have hurt attendance at COMMON. Also, how many JDE shops are going to
> send someone to the spring conference when the JDE conference is held every
> year in early June?
>

Paul,

absolutely no surprises here.  The industry has changed from a hardware
centric environment to an APPLICATION centric environment.  Do you buy a
phone service based on what o/s and hardware it works on?  NO.  You just
want it to work...give you a dial tone, let you punch in your 10 numbers
and order your Papa John's Pizza...  That's also what's happening from an
application standpoint....