Re: Having much trouble working with our ERP vendor

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

That doesn't sound too reasonable to me. The ERP software (I assume) is
driving the business - your code does other things like reporting or
whatever. Can you just buy the existing code? IANAL, but I would be
reviewing the contract to see what your rights are.

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Don Cavaiani <dcavaiani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> We cannot seem to work out a mutually beneficial way to move our ERP
> software up to a new IBM Systemi Server.
> If I understand correctly, NOT licensing our ERP software on the faster IBM
> server models will render all the vendor   programs run from the standard
> vendor ERP menus unusable.
> We have for years now been modifying a large percentage (40-50%) of these
> ERP programs (modifications have been made to the original RPG source code).
>  In addition, we have developed several major 'bolt-ons' - using just the
> existing file structures and LANSA for the WEB.  We are investigating the
> possibility of dropping all the ERP menus and programs entirely, if/when
> moving to the new server.
> I am asking the group for a 'reasonableness' check on the possibility of
> this approach.
> TIA
>
>
> Don F. Cavaiani
>
> Amerequip Corp.
> 920-894-7063
>
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