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  • Subject: RE: Please advise
  • From: "Shaw, David" <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 08:57:16 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: L. S. Russell [mailto:leslier@datrek.com]

You will never, and I mean never
convince me that data entry types want a GUI interface to their
applications. I have tried it with seagull and other screen scrapers and
always gotten hostile response. 
I admit, and agree that the 400 is not strong in the gui arena but I
don't think it is data entry types who are driving the surge toward gui.
I think the bedazzled developers are not think about the data entry
personnel when the shove a point and click interface down the users
throat.
Take BPCS GUI order entry module as a case in point, it was so slow and
unwieldy that we had to discontinue implementation, the customer service
department just could not use the darn thing, and they didn't want to be
forced to go back and forth between mouse and 10 key all day long.
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As a counterpoint in the green-screen versus GUI preference argument, consider
the MAPICS PDMPlus interface.  At my previous employer we implemented it, and
everyone who used it, including data entry personnel, preferred it to the
green-screen PDM interface.  I'll grant that most GUI interfaces are not as well
done as PDMPlus, but that's the fault of the developers, not of the interface
model.

Of course, MAPICS was silly enough to design their interface from the ground up
using "mainstream" tools like SmallTalk, rather than adapting anything they
already had or using the fad of the month.  The interesting thing is that on the
host side they were able to use a lot of the old "offline load" batch code that
they've been bringing forward since the days of punch cards on the S/3.  What
goes around comes around, eh?

Dave Shaw
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