Re: MAPICS Conference!

Wellllll.....   Frankly, ANYONE that stays at a conference hotel and
allows themselves to pay the conference rate, kinda deserves what they
get....  In Orlando there's ALOT of nice places to stay that are ALOT
cheaper than $200/night!  Checkout www.exstay.com....you could have stayed
for the whole week for $250...:)


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On Fri, 10 May 2002 Leleux@shur-lok.com wrote:

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> Well since no else wants to broach the subject...... :)
> I attended this year's conference in Orlando and was excited to
> see some of the changes planned (or already in the works).
> I like their MAPICS Essentials concept, perhaps this will help
> companies running older version get up to speed more efficiently
> and more importantly more affordable.  I'm sure MAPICS could
> put dollars elsewhere if it weren't spread supporting so many
> versions.  And yes, I'm acutely aware that we all have valid
> reasons for being 'behind'.
> But.. I must admit I found some of the re-branding confusing.  I had
> one session on XA send me to MAPICS Theater to see Pointman?!?!
> What was that all about, even MAPICS employees were getting confused!
> As a company heavily pushing Integrator and the demise of green
> screen I was excited to see a more uniform approach to their GUI
> plans.  Just hope they commit to a publish date soon.
> I also found several helpful sessions to attend.  I must say their EXECUTIVE
> label was useful in knowing which sessions to avoid (I'm on the techy side
> like you!)  Nonetheless the format made it a little bit confusing on
> separating
> Extended System from ISeries.  (Pointman from XA.... in English).
> I feel much better about going to R7, possibly this Christmas, except CSM is
> not ready.  Plus I'm still confused a wee bit about WebsFEAR (I mean
> websphere)  Will I need to worry about it if I'm not using the Net/System
> lynx stuff?  Some told me it was necessary for the underlying java, but I
> don't buy it!  Websphere does not fit our game plan, and I don't want to
> give up precious cycles if I don't need to.  We are fortunate to be running
> an ISeries 820 - but that doesn't mean we have horsepower to burn.
> But I do know that I must get to V5R1 soon.
> I'm curious about the opinions of others.  But regardless of which, I'm sure
> we'll all agree the facility was nice but $200/night is not your typical
> MAPICS
> site's budget!  I had 4 people attend; 3 X 4 X $200 = my a$% in a sling!
> Thanks for letting me prattle, look forward to comments by others......james
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