Re: Upgrade from BPCS 4.03 to BPCS 8.3 / ERP LX

Jan

Milt is not quite correct when he says
Ms4 went out of business. We own the rights to the product and continue to provide support to our customers. The Ms4 that you have has the ability to add 28 back to alll your year values prior to migration to another version of bpcs so no need to buy or write your own programs. Of course if you have to write your own migration programs ms4 will tell you where the date fields are and you can add code into those migration programs instead of using ms4 to covert back to reatime first. Remember you can only operate your version of bpcs in realtime if all dates are post 1999.
Bill Chisholm
+353 87 937 2702


On 18 Mar 2010, at 15:38, "Milt Habeck" <mhabeck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<vendor>
Hi Jan,

This BPCS/ERP LX essay was written for you: www.unbeatenpath.com/up-a-notch/implement/debunk.pdf
It poses six provocative questions for an enterprise in exactly your situation.
The title on the document is: "Debunking Conventional Wisdom - Software Implementations & Version Migrations"
The content represents our cumulative years of learning about the process.

By the way .... Unbeaten Path developed a Y2K remediation product that employed the same patented 28 year fix philosophy that your company is using. We called it Resuscitator2000.
www.unbeatenpath.com/ads/R2000OxygenCylinder.pdf.
We have the technology to reverse the 28 year fix to prepare six- digit data for migration to eight digit fields. (MS4 went out of business not long after the new century got started.)

One of these days we'll have to start getting our product ready for the rarely-discussed Y10K problem.

With warm regards,
Milt Habeck
Unbeaten Path
+262-681-3151

</vendor>



----- Original Message -----
From: Roodt, Jan
To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:51 AM
Subject: [BPCS-L] Upgrade from BPCS 4.03 to BPCS 8.3


We are in the process of setting up a plan to upgrade from BPCS 4.03
(pre CD - running MS4) to 8.3.

Anybody through this process? Any suggestions on which route to follow
e.g. going to 4.05CD first etc. would be appreciated.


Regards
Jan

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