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Oh good grief, a former employer of mine (UK manufacturer, and yes there are a few) had a go at implementing SAP on AS/400 in the mad rush to beat the Y2K bug in the old applications; they tried to implement just about all the modules. A quite powerful AS/400 (200+ user system) managed interactive responses of 5 seconds (average) some as high as 25. The consultants working on the system were going berserk. At their request, the memory and processor were upgraded, no change. Analysing the database, some physical files had 120+ logicals over them! My impression was that the application design had been clubbed into rather than ported to AS/400. A real dogs dinner. We replaced the AS/400 with NT servers and the average response time became 0.1 second. However, I have recently heard from a recent escapee from the same place, that they have now thrown out SAP too. To my knowledge they had spent £3m on it while I was there. S.A.P. = Smaller Annual Profits ? Jeff Bull. -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 12:52 AM To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com Subject: Sap Bites the Dust at Sobeys ($81 million) !!! A HUGE loss SAP - OUCH You HAVE to hit the link and read SAPs spin - nothing wrong with their software package EVEN though it will be replaced by another SOFTWARE package... :-) From Computerworld Daily Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:27:20 -0500 Canadian supermarket chain abandons SAP's retail software Sobeys, the second-largest supermarket company in Canada, is giving up on an $81 million implementation of SAP's business applications for retailers following a five-day database and systems shutdown in December. http://computerworld.com/cwi/story/0%2C1199%2CNAV47_STO57293_NLTam%2C00.html +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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