RE: RE: Fairly Boring News Article on Oracle

I have worked with a little with PeopleSoft and a lot with J.D. Edwards OneWorld. Also have worked with a lot of people who have worked with them all. I know the finance guys, the sales order guys, inventory etc...My experience is that most of them agree the OneWorld is very capable of being configured to model current business practices without too many mods. From an administration standpoint you will usually only need 1 DBA and 1 CNC (App admin) once you stabilized in production mode. Selling widgets is selling widgets so the idea that you must have a custom tailored application to suit an individual business's is not that really that common. Products like JDE at least have done a good job of allowing you to configure how the application works.

Ethan Post
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Patrice,

    Since we're in the middle of a PeopleSoft implementation I can say that I
agree with the comments in the articles. If you buy one of these prebuilt packages you have the problem of either re-inventing your business or trying to
modify the package to meet your requirements. Option 1 is troublesome at best
since you may well have to re-orientate people and practices from years of what
they were use to. Ugly to say the least. Now option 2 is more like skating on
paper thin ice. PeopleSoft is 'modifiable' but there are a lot of other ramifications that one has to think about, like upgrades. The closer to 'plain
vanilla' you can stay the better. The farther away you get, the less the vendor
supports you and the harder (and longer) upgrades become. SAP and Oracle do not
lend themselves to modification. SAP just because those Germans know best
(so

I've been told by those with experience) and Oracle because it just plain does
not fit. What are people doing, PeopleSoft or else roll your own. Now Oracle
does make a decent tool set for the later in Designer and Developer. Personally
I would prefer that they drop the apps and concentrate on the tools and database.

Dick Goulet

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Author: "Boivin; Patrice J" <BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Date:       4/9/2002 6:08 AM

If people aren't using SAP, Oracle Applications or PeopleSoft, what are they using?  

PlumTree portals? Is that what they mean by Web services?  

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