[Info-vax] For sale: VAXstation 4000/90 128MB Fully Working and Tested

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/1/22 18:02, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 01/07/2022 22:34, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 7/1/2022 12:54 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> On 7/1/2022 10:52 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>>> For some reason Arne, you seem to feel that that which isn't broken 
>>>>> must
>>>>> regardless be fixed.  I just don't understand such.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do believe that I mentioned that the Codis application/ERP did what
>>>>> the users needed, is successfully running their businesses, and just
>>>>> about anything else would be a step down, not up.
>>>>
>>>> Progress is not about replacing things that are broken. Progress
>>>> is about replacing things that work with something that work better.
>>>
>>> SAP seldom works better.
>>> --scott
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Depends ...
>>
>> If the goal is destroying the user, then SAP works very well ...
>>
> 
> SAP Relies on the business changing its business processes to match SAP, 
> where I imagine that most of us wrote software to fit around the way the 
> business worked.
> 

And that was the argument I have always presented for any talk of
moving to a canned program.  As far back as the 80's when places
like Radio Shack (back when they actually had Computer Stores and
sold things like Xenix, COBOL, Fortran, Informix and other real
computer systems) offered AR, AP, Payroll, GL, Inventory, etc.  You
had to change your business model to the model built into their
packages.   Fast forward a couple decades.  Banner knocks at the
University's door and bingo here we go again.  Throw out all the
in house written systems that were designed around how we did business
and bring in Banner changing how we did business to how Banner
perceived business.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

bill