Re: BPCS on V4R3 -- MIDRANGE-L

Dean,

Wouldn't be surprised but not sure...

I do remember when we were "SUCKERED" into buying it and I was "lucky" enough to
get STUCK with figuring out WHAT it took to get the PC configured correctly (all
you really needed was a desktop Cray...), etc. I ended up talking to the 
original
developer who had been contracted by SSA. HE wanted and KNEW that it should be
written COMPLETELY in C/C++ and they insisted on VB (another MS con...) and 
thus a
BIG part of the garbage response time... He ended up quitting and the ONE tech
support guy assigned to it and who I spoke with on an almost daily basis for 
weeks
(as they keep sending us "upgrades, etc.") was "gone"... It was downhill after
that.

For anyone that went thought that, I and those folks REALLY had our doubts when
SSA announced they were doing Client Server since they really seemed lacking in
how to do it or at least the "brains" at the top were listening to the wrong
people...

I know in the early days of "6.0 is gonna save the world", that myself and our
network guru asked them about 6.0 in an environment like ours where 100's of 
PC's
(500+) throughout the US and Canada were attached to our AS/400 via a frame 
relay
WAN and they said they "really hadn't tested anything like that but it should
work". We about died; especially after seeing how some of the pre-6.0 green 
stuff
ran - we were CONVINCED that they tested with 100 (OK maybe even a few thousand)
record files thus in the real world of 100,000 + or even 1,000,000 + files
performance was a DOG - that it was doomed until they got it together with in 
that
arena...

And so it goes...

Chuck

DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:

> Chuck,
>
> In a message dated 98-10-15 01:47:21 EDT, you write:
>
> <<snip>>
> > My wife is going to have a garage sale tomorrow and I was caring one of our
> >  daughters desks out to add to the sale (one they don't use anymore). I took
> the
> >  drawers out to check for "stuff" behind the drawers and guess what I found
> ?
> >
> >  A USER VISION mouse pad - probably the most functional part of that ill-
> fated
> >  product <BG> !!!
> <<snip>>
>
> ROFL!!!!  I hadn't thought about "Loser Vision" in _ages_.  Do they still try
> to pawn that off on people?
>
> Regards!
>
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
>
> "If you see a bandwagon, it's too late." -- Sir James Goldsmith
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