RE: JD Edwards directions

[Scott Mildenberger <Smildenber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Within the last few weeks, as mentioned in the article, JDE extended the
period of support for World out to 2005.  It had been next year sometime, I
think.  It has been speculated that a lot of World customers were thinking
of staying with the unsupported World and creating their own gui or web
interfaces were they wanted them instead of moving to OneWorld.  JDE would
lose maintenance fees from all these customers, instead they have chosen to
continue supporting World and providing these interfaces themselves.  JDE's
financial results haven't been that great lately and if their customers
didn't move to OneWorld and that's all they supported, things wouldn't be
good.  Sounds to me like JDE is trying to listen to it's customers so it can
stay in business.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Earl [SMTP:johnearl@400security.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 11:43 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      JD Edwards directions
> 
> I found this to be a very interesting press release...
> 
> http://www.jdedwards.com/NewsRoom/archive/worldsworg.asp
> 
> It looks to me as if JD Edwards is backing away from the full
> Client Server model and starting to pay more attention to tried
> and true AS/400 solutions.  Is that how you read it?
> 
> It reminds me of a post from someone asking if there was anyone
> who had fully implemented OneWorld.  The poster specifically said
> he wasn't interested in talking to anyone who was in the process
> of implementing, just someone who had completed the job.
> 
> jte
> 
> 
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