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One fallacy in this argument is that this does nothing for the BPCS user on the UNIX platform. the products involved seem to be intended for the AS400 or iSeries. Judy Liberty, -----Original Message----- From: mkleinman@CCSESERVERS.COM [mailto:mkleinman@CCSESERVERS.COM] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:30 AM To: bpcs-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: INFINIUM PURCHASE -- I disagree, I think the strategy is wonderful. By buying software brands and focusing on adding value by bringing those products up to current technology standards is a wonderful plan..Consider the following... JDE and Peoplesoft have world class financials and decent MFG products. BPCS/PRMS customers , now with Websphere, will get world class financials and one of the bet HR/Payroll products in the industry. SSA Can compete with any of these software companies on enterprise or stand alone solutiuons. The cross selling of these brands is wide open... Companies that do not want to buy a "new" package for instance will be able to add modules as they see fit..need plant Maintenance? Great SSA has it. Want world class financials? Great SSA has it. Need HR or Payroll? SSA now has the leading edge solutions for those as well with Web Self services... I thin it is a great move. Oh and by the way ALL software companies charge OGS in the same range as SSA-GT. Mitchell K. Kleinman Executive Vice President CCS- an IBM Premier Business Partner mitch@ccseservers.com Office: (949) 261-3298 - Direct Mobile: (949) 922-2434 Fax: (949) 261-9164 (Embedded image moved to file: pic00565.jpg) |---------+----------------------------> | | Tom Saprano | | | <sixfeetunder01@y| | | ahoo.com> | | | Sent by: | | | bpcs-l-admin@midr| | | ange.com | | | | | | | | | 10/29/2002 08:04 | | | AM | | | Please respond to| | | bpcs-l | | | | |---------+----------------------------> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: bpcs-l@midrange.com | | cc: | | Subject: INFINIUM PURCHASE | >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Well folks - Greenough has done it again. Diluted our BPCS value by buying another tier two player - Infinium. Spent $100 million to buy a company that isn't even on most analyst's radar screens anymore. Their process product is weak. The only redeeming value is their gaming and healthcare verticals which do have a market share is those respective industries. Since everyone is talking about OGS it is apparently clear that Greenough has indeed found the key to profitability - sock it to the current users for as much Maintenance revenue as he can get. With the CA, and now the Infinium acquisition he can get even more. Most of these customers are much like the BPCS customer in that they will stick with the iSeries and not bother with new technology. BTW, I don't think that SSA GT can force you to be on OGS to receive a key to run BPCS. As long as you comply with the terms of your contract and do pay them for upgrades etc., they would be forced to give you a new key without OGS payments. All new strategies work for a while - the bad economy is helping SSA GT because no one wants to, or can afford to make a change right now. It's much cheaper to fix it with bandaids and baling wire. However, elephants never forget, and as soon as the economy becomes brighter there will be a stampede toward the door to other vendors. The OGS extortion with bite SSA GT where the sun doesn't shine - then we'll see how profitable they will be! They are not doing what is best for the BPCS users - but what is best for Greenough and Cerberus Partners who really own this company. ASs usual it always comes down to money. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ This is the SSA's BPCS ERP System (BPCS-L) mailing list To post a message email: BPCS-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/bpcs-l or email: BPCS-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/bpcs-l. -- [ pic00565.jpg of type image/jpeg deleted ] -- _______________________________________________ This is the SSA's BPCS ERP System (BPCS-L) mailing list To post a message email: BPCS-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/bpcs-l or email: BPCS-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/bpcs-l.
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