On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 22:27, Adam West <adamster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Someone had mentioned an i based ERP that has the same pretty screens displays as windows.
Here's one (probably not the one mentioned)
http://projectdream.org/~lb/diasnc.jpg
On the Windows side, you have a small 10MB "screen display program"
(called DIAS-iS Network Client), and on the i you have a server that
runs the applications themselves (called DIAS-iS Terminal Server). All
the business logic is on the i - there is a bit of logic on the client
that can check if fields have the proper values and such, and import
file readers that allows to directly import .xls, .mdb, etc.
Product is only for the Swiss market, so i don't consider this advertising ;)
Another post was about the Windows envirnonment not being good for a business ERP. I would like to see more details on that. What we are being told that everything is just peachy in windows. I would need evidence to the contrary to help save the i installation.
In my opinion (being both responsible for our IBM i and our Windows
infrastructure) it doesn't depend that much on the platform, but
instead on the people that maintain the platform. Good Windows people
make good Windows infrastructure, good i people make good i
infrastructure. Applications are also important, and the main drawback
here are for the i, for which many ISVs haven't kept up with the time.
However, there are also Windows ISVs that are still selling
applications that are barely compatible with Vista and built on old
and unsupported programming environments.
One thing that many IBM i people have got right is that they
understand both the business side and the technical side. This is a
skill that most people from my generation (me included) lack, because
IT is a seperate business unit now. But this is a great chance for
older IBM i people whose business switches applications and/or
platform. They can capitalize on their business knowledge, and ensure
a good transition and long term process improvements - all the while
they no longer have to do IT grunt work like programming or system
administration.
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