RE: Full free form and /copy or /include

We have the source code as well, and have done our share of customization. I did the last upgrade 10 years ago. So we are several releases behind. But I'm sure and upgrade is still doable.

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Subject: Re: Full free form and /copy or /include

But what are you supposed to do when you've invested money and many years into building your business (including other applications) on top of an ERP like this?

But look at it this way - it will almost always be cheaper to completely re-build your applications than to try to shoehorn into SAP or whatever flavour-du-jour. And you can do it gradually.

Jon - that's how I looked at it. But then I leave my company with a custom application when I retire.

Hey, at least your shop built applications "on top of" the ERP.

Where I work, we got the source code for the ERP way back when, and
soon the ERP itself was a custom application. There is no way we could
ever upgrade to a new version of the ERP from the vendor.

John Y.