Re: ERP or not?

> is BPCS omitted because they are not big enough,
>  or don't they have a true ERP system.

The annual survey of ERPs in ERP Midrange magazine indicates that at 20,000 
sites using BPCS world wide, BPCS is second largest ERP for mid-sized 
companies, including those running on purely PC platforms, so big enough is 
not the issue.  http://www.mfg-erp.com

I suspect because SSA does not advertise in the right places with competent 
marketing ... you may have noticed that a lot of computer press treats the 
AS/400 as either non-existant or a platform no longer worthy of 
consideration, and some people attribute this phenomena partly due to IBM 
marketing that says "IBM is the solution" without enough platform-specific 
marketing & partly because of a common mentality today that anything invented 
many years ago (like transportation) is no good purely because it was not 
invented yesterday.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
http://www.whma.org = our nitch industry has a large committee searching for 
ErPdMes products right for WHM without work-arounds, which for many members 
resemble a snipe hunt - if you are in this software business & want to fix 
your product so it will not be mistaken for what your competition has been 
doing, then you might want to join our great game.

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