RE: HR/Payroll Systems

<SoapBox>
Agreed. We had a preventative maintenance package that our engineers
selected. GUI. We also had one in house. JDE World. Engineers wanted
the GUI. Why? We need a GUI. What do you need from the GUI? Crickets
chirp. Tumbleweed passes by. We need a GUI. My guess is that for most
users about 80% of the functionality of the GUI is either cut/paste or
sizing of windows. Last time I checked a 5250 emulation session does
that quite well. I know there are good GUI's out there but I'm betting
that most people cut/paste and play with their window size.
</SoapBox>

Michael Crump

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of PaulMmn
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:18 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Cc: James.Hawkins@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: HR/Payroll Systems

<Soapbox>
Why do The Users assume that an application with a GUI and a mouse is
better than a green-screen application? Salesmanship! And, perhaps,
poor green-screen design. A properly constructed green-screen
application is much faster for pure data entry than a GUI. Maybe
it's because the system only needs to ship about 2K (that's 2000)
bytes of data down the line to refresh the screen!
</Soapbox>

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


At 9:17 AM -0500 1/2/08, James.Hawkins@xxxxxxxxxx wrote (in part):

A company that I used to work for went through a couple of iterations

of

trying to get away from the payroll/HR package that we were using.
The second attempt, HR says, "We don't like the DOS (green screens)
system, we want a GUI system" after reviewing a few GUI systems "Why

do

they take so much mouse work, I don't want to use a mouse all the time

for

data entry". Go figure.