RE: J. D. Edwards Article that I felt was pertinent

We were one of those companies brought in and have always been World
Software proponents.  We were scared sh*tless when they "laid down the
upgrade or die" law because for us, going to OneWorld will take quite a bit
of time.   Also, the new fancy functionality in OneWorld really doesn't
apply to our businesses.  In other words, (just as we told JDE) "We don't
have a Business Need to do this so why do we HAVE to??".  We will be
dabbling in the coexistence mode soon and our plan has always been to stay
with host-centric computing on the AS/400.  They are just WAY TOO RELIABLE!

I also have been attending their yearly users conference and this year was
interesting.  Bill Gates (yawn...) was one of the keynote speakers and
Bonnie Raitt put on a great concert.  The overwhelming # of seminars were on
implementing/migrating to OneWorld and they were the most highly attended.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Barsa, Jr. [SMTP:barsa2@ibm.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 8:09 AM
> To:   midrange-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      J. D. Edwards Article that I felt was pertinent
> 
                (snip)
                Several months ago, according to my sources within JDE, the 
>       company brought in dozens of WorldSoftware customers to 
>       talk about the future of the WorldSoftware product line, 
>       which is set to expire on February 28, 2002. Having 
>       survived the Y2K transition and having been under the gun to 
>       convert themselves into e-businesses, JDE's WorldSoftware 
>       customers said point blank that what they really wanted was 
>       for JDE to extend the life of WorldSoftware and put some 
>       programmers to work on bringing some of the functionality 
>       in the OneWorld suite over to WorldSoftware.
>       
>       IBM and JDE are right now putting together some joint 
>       marketing campaigns to bring this message to the 
>       WorldSoftware base and to potential JDE customers who might 
>       prefer WorldSoftware over OneWorld for the next few years. 
>       They will also bring home the message that JDE has been 
>       sending out since its user group meeting last month, which 
>       is that the company is cool with the idea of the 
>       coexistence of WorldSoftware and OneWorld on AS/400s.
>       
>        
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