Re(2): Re(2): Re(2): [Retrieved] New iSeries and XA License Keys

["Thomas Hauber" <thauber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Remember I am on XAR4 not 7.  There is a reason for that ;-)

>Bullet proof? Do you subscribe to the emails that come out all the time
>detailing the PTFs Infor releases for XA? :-)
>
>Not that I am bagging on XA, but our migration to R7 wasn't at all
>stable until PCM level 4021 was applied.
>
>-Jim 
>
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>Subject: [MAPICS-L] Re(2): Re(2): [Retrieved] New iSeries and XA License
>Keys
>
>I hate to disagree with you but I work at two companies, a Mapics one
>and a System 2000 one.  VAI does have good documentation and a better
>customer support staff than Infor.  Where Mapics excels is in the fact
>that their code is bullet proof where VAI still has some rough edges to
>it.  However these errors are minor.
>
>Over the past few years I have contemplated switching the Mapics company
>over to VAI, but have always hesitated because I am a one man
>department.  There is precious little time for me to do my normal day to
>day routine let alone a big conversion project.  But push may come to
>shove if when we look at upgrading the hardware next year I am looking
>at a Mapics bill in the thousands.
>
>Infor may be trying to compete with SAP, but at what cost?  Losing all
>their SMB customers?
>
>>Tom,
>>Sometimes the grass looks greener on the other side.  I "had" a MAPICS 
>>customer that switched to VAI because of the low price and no annual 
>>maintenance.  They were also sold on the web piece, interfaces with all
>
>>these neat packages, etc.  It's been over 6 years and hundreds of 
>>thousands of "extra" dollars and it is still not doing what they were
>promised.
>>
>>Along with the lack of usable documentation (for any programmer to 
>>use), at that time had no data collection system, did not have a good 
>>"manufacturing module" according to their own sales rep - I could go 
>>on.  At the time, they were only paying around $30K for annual
>maintenance for XA.
>>
>>Eric
>>
>>
>>> No doubt I should be looking at converting to another ERP system like
>
>>> System 2000 (from VAI) if Infor quotes something outrageous like what
>
>>> I have been reading.
>>>
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