RE: SAP/Oracle

Hi,

I wasn't making any recommendation one way or the other. The decision process occurred 10 years ago in this organization and was made by business analysts and, of course, not IT. And there was a bit of primary-stock-holder-was-German politics tossed in at the time (not relevant now). JDE was not considered. Current parent company acquires other companies all the time and one acquisition (roughly the size of the company I'm situated at) has 3 (4?) different production instances to run their company. I can't comment on JDE but this argument sounds like my argument for the "awful" legacy system that I used to support. It made far slimmer use of system resources, was simpler to manage/program, and was very stable (10 years ago)...but, goodness, it was a green screen non-client server system so people in charge at the time thought of it as a dinosaur not long for this world. whatever...

And to Nuno -- my point was that outsourcing/offshoring is a real concern in the U.S. regardless of whether or not SAP is used.

Kip

|Would be curious to know why you ruled out J.D. Edwards in your
|selection process. What did SAP provide that JDE did not? We have some
|very successful JDE implementations and most run with 1 app server, 1 db
|server and 1 test server, are easy to manage and only require a few
|business application folks. The SAP horror stories I have heard always
|sound like they take 3-5 times this amount of resources.

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|[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Nuno Souto
|Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 3:53 AM
|To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
|Subject: Re: SAP/Oracle

|----- Original Message -----=20
|From: <Kip.Bryant_at_Vishay.com>

|>
|> Some other respondents mention outsourcing/offshoring...these forces
|are=20
|> at
|> work regardless of whether SAP is involved. I just had a call from an

|> outfit
|> (U.S. based) that said they could manage our systems and DR solution
|and=20
|> reduce
|> our costs by 20% (little realizing what this probably meant for me and
|the
|> people I work with...).

|20%? Look, I can save you 100%: just
|don't use SAP.

|Cheers
|Nuno Souto
|nsouto_at_bizmail.com.au=20

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