RE: MAPICS Essentials

Mike,

The biggest change in Essentials is conversion to concurrent usage. For us
it coverted us to our new box at 25% of the price of the processor based
upgrade. It also added the client apps as a gimmee (and REP too). Just be
careful of concurrent usage what may seem like a great deal gets bad fast if
you have to add users to support inquiry type usage. 

Unfortunately it didn't really change our ALF which is screaming high in
relation to the actual enhancement and maintenance provided. We would love
to just license the software and get rid of the support and ehancement $$$
to reduce our annual fee. If they ever adopt that it would force them to do
real development activity again or cope with massive revenue loss and
eliminate the half hearted efforts of the poorly integrated third party
applications or client applications that really don't extend MAPICS in any
saleable way (ie if the client apps were not "free" we would never buy
them").

I am not sure if they still have the program either. The Greenstreak IBM and
Essentials MAPICS programs may be history. The equivalent IBM box would now
cost $250,000 more than it did last year. It is easy to predict it will be
our last upgrade.

Regards

Konrad

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael J. Dreimiller [mailto:mandis-inc@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:25 AM
To: MAPICS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: MAPICS Essentials


I have seen the term "MAPICS Essentials".  What does this mean or include?

TIA
Mike Dreimiller
Mandis Inc.
410-526-5996
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