Re: "interBiz" acquisition by SSAGT

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Reduced development is very likely for the next few years.  But is that
really that bad a thing right now?  I don't what fraction of the BPCS
base are way behind on versions, but I suspect it is large.  Were we on
maintenance, I would be more concerned about reduced support!

When CA acquired PRMS 10 (?) years ago, PRMS development essentially
stopped as CA tried unsuccessfully to get the PRMS (AS400) customers off
of PRMS and onto one of the other ERP platforms.  Then they caved, spun
off interBiz, and restarted PRMS development, but the damage was done.
I suspect that SSA GT will have much greater success getting the PRMS
customers onto BPCS, especially those on older versions.

What I think will happen is that SSA GT will slow down BPCS
"development" per se, and focus more effort on getting the wayward BPCS
customers and the PRMS customers onto the current BPCS.  If they are
successful over the next 18-24 months, then BPCS development will ramp
back up.

The dynamics of the SSA GT customer base have changed dramatically.
There is a substantial group of non-AS400 interBiz customers who I
suspect will give SSA GT fits!



>>> jhandoo@hotmail.com 04/11/02 11:56PM >>>
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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