is edi translator software difficult to write? was: edi vendor complaining

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

is it difficult to write an EDI translator? or port code from Linux?  I dont
follow why so many are locked into the Innovis package.



On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Konrad Underkofler <kdunderk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> As usual people are voting with their feet. Any vendor that considers their
> customers a cash machine to be plundered at will without adding value are
> doomed to go out of business. IBM at times has been the worst offender in
> this area never adding features to product to keep existing customers, only
> to add new customers. Packages and product stagnated while other newer
> systems became the "hot" software / hardware of the day.
>
> IBM now has made a decent effort to reduce the cost of moving to a new box,
> but there is still arbitrary pricing all over the place. Twinax is a
> premium, PSF/400 is a premium and so on. Difficult migration paths and
> difficult to configure new systems make the Windows / Linux choice a simple
> one.
>
> Bottom line, same number of users, same activity, same transactions should
> result in no cost to migrate. Make your revenue through exceptional support
> and new features / applications.