Interesting parallel, I used to work at epicor. Not sure which product you
were referencing but their ERP/MRP stuff was born in the pick database and
the unix platform. They made it work on a windows box because their
customers didn't want to go out and find unix admins but it performed
better and was more stable on unix. Pick (now the 'U2' products at IBM) was
pretty proprietary and the app code that made it into an embedded database
product was done using system builder 4gl. Originally a cui, they made gui
screens to try and give it a windows look and feel. When I left the company
in 04, they were porting the whole thing to a dotnet framework, service
oriented architecture.
Kevin Brake, MSSE
Applications and Business Analyst - Enterprise Solutions
Information & Technology Services
City of Goodyear
190 N. Litchfield Rd.
Goodyear, AZ 85338
623-882-7857
623-882-7858 (Fax)
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It's not just impressive screens, it's the user functionality that is
missing in the Iseries packages. We are speaking of another company that
might bite the dust, heaven forbid. But the users are the users.
Some packages would include Epicor, Blue Cherry, Apprise.
Don't underrate functionality.
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Adam West
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"Management by Airline Magazine", perhaps?
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Businesses run themselves on powerful databases and reliable systems, not
impressive screens. Unfortunately, that's not necessarily the way some
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Okay Adam West, tell us more about the ERP packages that run on Windows.
I have never heard of any vendor offering a true Enterprise Resource
system on Windows.
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<Adam West> I have recently been looking at ERP packages from both i
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