I'll add my agreement to what Rob is saying here. I've known quite a few
entrepreneurs in my day and they are an odd breed. If one of them like
handwriting checks, I suspect that is just the way he is. If the company
is profitable and pulling in $60 million a year and the CEO wants to write
his own checks, I'd let him continue doing so. After all, it is his
investment of time and probably a way that he feels that he keeps close
tabs on what's going on.
Rich Loeber
Kisco Information Systems
http://www.kisco.com
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rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Paul,
At one time the founder here stopped the automatic signing of checks.
We
still generated them by computer. However each division had to hand
sign
them. Turned out to be a pretty good edit for finding stuff that was
already paid.
Now if I could just convince my wife to balance our checkbook on
occasion
then we could see where the money is flying to...
Rob Berendt
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Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com
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Jon,
Before I moved out of Chicago earlier this month, I had a client ($60
million custom manufacturer; each order is unique) still running on a
model
436. The guy who wrote the software died a few years ago. Two years ago,
I
explained to them that there are custom manufacturing packages out there
where they would have support for the application and everything. I told
them they were working without a net. Nothing happened, except they
would
call every once in a while to help me get their machine back up and
running.
They began a project to migrate to Great Plains software, because a
relative
convinced them he could modify it to meet their needs. Then that
relative
got another job and no longer has time for the migration project. Sound
familiar?
Here's the topper: When it comes time to produce accounts payable
checks,
the clerk prints an aging list and gives it to the owner. He then pulls
out
a checkbook and hand writes each check! A $60 MILLION company! That's
something that doesn't make sense. BTW, when the owner is out of town,
the
vendors have to wait until he returns.
Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
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Subject: RE: Software update fees (was New redpaper: i5/OS Program
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>> This doesn't make a ton of sense to me -- UNLESS the software
vendors
are charging ongoing maintenance for those old installations.
It doesn't make much sense for me regardless.
Rob alluded to one case where a vendor's announcement that they would no
longer support out of service releases met with applause from their user
community. This is only one of a number of cases I have encountered
where
a
vendor finally bit the bullet to find that their users had been praying
for
that day.
I cannot understand why anybody would risk basing their business on an
obsolete version of an operating system that has no vendor support and
(because it is proprietary at its core) cannot be "fixed" by third
parties
in the event of a problem. I don't care if it is Windows or i5/OS (or I
guess OS/400 if it is that old) - I just don't see the risk/benefit
equation
making sense.
It does seem to me that a significant part of the problem lies not so
much
with the end users, but with software vendors who charge ridiculous fees
for
simply allowing a customer to get up-to-date. I include IBM in this
category - in fact I think they are probably the worst of the lot and
probably their own worst enemies. Just about every OS release consumes
more
resource - their insistence on making it economically impractical for
people
to move to a new release must have cost them millions in lost hardware
sales.
Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com
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