Thanks, Nathan - this tells the story about their underlying technology.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 11:24 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Epicor ERP in the i ??
From: Don Cavaiani
Any one know if Epicor ERP runs on the i?
A few quotes from their annual report at www.sec.gov:
Epicor's early adoption of the Microsoft(r) .NET Framework and XML Web
services allows its product offerings, development and services to
leverage the benefits of SOA and provide growing midsized businesses
with increased flexibility, inter-operability, and cross-platform
capability. These capabilities are extremely important as the market for
Enterprise Applications continues to grow worldwide.
The Company's Clientele suite leverages both the Microsoft Access and
Microsoft SQL Server databases.
The Company's technology direction currently embraces the Microsoft .NET
Framework for XML-based Web services, networking architecture, and
graphical user interface components. Through the .NET Framework, the
Company provides comprehensive support for Web services deployment and
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Leveraging the .NET Framework
and the XML standard for data exchange, Epicor provides increased access
to information both within and between organizations - no matter where
their offices or employees are located. This technology strategy can
enable the Company's development teams to leverage Microsoft technology,
while allowing each product family to continue to utilize the individual
databases and development tools appropriate to the requirements of each
product's target market. As a long standing Microsoft Gold Certified
Partner and an early adopter of the .NET Framework, and most recently
Windows Vista(r), Epicor is able to leverage its expertise with
Microsoft technology to benefit their customers worldwide.
If the emerging and current technologies and platforms of Microsoft and
others upon which the Company builds its products do not gain or retain
broad market acceptance, or if we fail to develop and introduce in a
timely manner new products and services compatible with such emerging
technologies, we may not be able to compete effectively and our ability
to generate revenues will suffer.
Specifically, the Company's software products are built and depend upon
several underlying and evolving relational database management system
platforms including Microsoft SQL Server, Progress OpenEdge and IBM U2,
and also are integrated with several other third party provider products
for the purpose of providing or enhancing necessary functionality.
CRS applications leverage Microsoft(r) and Java technologies.
As a long standing Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and an early adopter
of the .NET Framework, and most recently Windows Vista(r), Epicor is
able to leverage its expertise with Microsoft technology to benefit
their customers worldwide.
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About the only mention of IBM is with respect to its U2 database server
and developer workbench (Eclipse based).
Nathan.
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