Re: "interBiz" acquisition by SSAGT -- BPCS-L

One implication can be that SSA GT will concentrate less on BPCS R&D!! Not
sure but I think its quite possible. Looking at the shift in focus of SSA GT
and especially after reading the interview of GT's top man, the above
statment seems quite probable. I think SSA GT now has too many babies to
look after!




>From: MacWheel99@aol.com
>Reply-To: bpcs-l@midrange.com
>To: bpcs-l@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: "interBiz" acquisition by SSAGT
>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:49:49 EDT
>
>THANKS for this HUGE news, I am not sure this is the right forum to discuss
>the implications, but I do not know what forum that should be.
>
> > http://www.interbiz.com/Press/Releases.asp?361
>
>My initial thoughts on this include:
>
>CA & SSAX have been strong competitors in which I always had thought that
>CA
>was the larger conglomerate.  I never had a good feel for the relative size
>of GT.
>
>Does this mean that SSAGT now owns CA-PRMS?
>Will SSAGT continue or improve support for CA-PRMS?
>Did the US Justice Department approve this consolidation in the ERP
>industry?
>
>Possible starting points where to go to review the relative sizes of the
>market shares of the different ERP mentioned by this news release, as
>opposed
>to the rest of the ERP market in midsized manufacturing.
>http://www.MidrangeEnterprise.com
>http://www.apics.org
>http://www.Enterprise.CNET.COM
>
>I had thought MANMAN was ERP for Unix including HP e3000 which HP is in
>process of dumping. HP 3000 customers love that system as much as AS/400 is
>loved, and now have an Open OS effort http://www.openMPE.org  to salvage
>what
>HP is throwing away.  Is there room for traditional commercial software
>vendors to participate & compete in the Open Source universe?
>
>SSAX enters into a lot of partnerships with outfits that will value added
>hand shake with BPCS but this is the first time since long before the
>bankrupsy that I have been aware of such an aquisition.  Some of the past
>partnerships have been e-commerce & collaboration supply chain linked to
>BPCS, which I think have great potential for future profits that perhaps
>SSAX
>wants to get more centrally involved in grabbing.
>
>I am not up on the latest BPCS versions but overall it seems to me that
>SSAX
>is extremely powerful in the area of core manufacturing, and a bit weak in
>several industry nitches such as those that need serious re-engineering,
>and
>weak in several application areas that connect to core manufacturing, such
>as
>payroll, HR, financials.  This aquisition is aimed squarely at repairing
>weaknesses that SSAX is aware of.
>
>MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
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