Re: Small Firm Software for the AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L


Dean,

a few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to attend a very nice presenatation
made by Infinium. Their solution seems to be very nice and is based on
AS/400 - Domino - Lotus Notes. What I liked mostly was professionalism and
competence of people making that presenatation. Infinium seems to be in
the list of top 25 IBM business partners (or something similar). I have no
idea about price and scalability.

Vanja Jovic,
Canada


On Sat, 20 Mar 1999 DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:

> 
> Hey Folks!
> 
> I need your help.  As most of you know (those that post and/or have been
> members of midrange-l for a while, anyway), I used to specialize in small
> accounts.  This is no longer the case, and hasn't been for quite some years.
> Yesterday, I got a call from a client of mine from the "old days" (hey, I've
> had the same listed phone number for 11 years!) wanting some advice.  They
> have been running DMAS on a /36 (recently, 436) for many years.  They are in
> the process of switching to BPCS (with no input from me) for most of their
> business, but are looking at spinning off one division into its own entity in
> the near future.
> 
> Now that I've bored you to tears, does anyone know of an affordable /400-based
> solution that will handle general accounting (GL, AP, AR) and OE/I for a small
> company with 30 employees and an eventual maximum of 100?  In "ye olden" days,
> I probably would have worked out a deal with IBM (DMAS), SW2K (now Infinium),
> Lawson, or SupportNet (most likely).  Now, I no longer work for an IBM agent
> firm, don't know if DMAS is even offered, if SupportNet is still in business,
> or if Infinium or Lawson even cater to small clients anymore.  I'd love to see
> the client go for a /400 based solution because of the reliability inherit in
> the system, but would have a hard time recommending something that would cost
> them over $1K USD/employee when there are so many network based solutions out
> there for companies of this size.  And yes, I've already made the "cost of
> ownership" argument.  I want the /400 solution in there, but really don't know
> what to even offer these days.  All help appreciated, even vendors...
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
> 
> "The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right." -- Jill
> Ruckleshaus
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