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> From: Peter Dow
>
> I'm curious, do have any statistics to back up your assertion that
> "Inquiries are only a small, rather trivial subset of business
> applications."?

<snip of many concise, relevant points>

Peter, I didn't mean "small, rather trivial subset" in terms of either
number of programs or number of panels, but instead in the amount of unique
logic required.  While there are certainly exceptions, a fairly large
percentage of inquiry programs are really little more than clones, whereas
most of the really heavy business logic is very unique.  Price lookup is a
far cry from finite forward scheduling, which in turn is a different beast
than cost rollup.  The number of truly unique lines of code in a typical
inquiry is far lower on a percentage basis than the same amount of core
business logic.

This of course is simply my experience, based on my work primarily with ERP
systems such as CAFRS, MAPICS, PRMS and BPCS.

Joe



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