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I have looked into and played with new 2009 EE version. I will soon write an article about its functions and archetecture and will compare its EE financial with SAP R/3 by function.

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It's pretty good for a chinese or indian programmer.

If someone gives me 1 million, I will be very happy. If someone wants me to work 16 hours a day in a dark room for 10 years and give me 20 million as an compensation. I will not accept. It all depends on what you pay and what you get.

I see a trend using PHP + Mysql for application development here. As they are all free. BTW a question to Tomhas Now I see a trend returning to the old way of developing logic in stored procedure. So DB and business logic is bounded. Using PHP JSP for the front end. The architecture is...

QAD report is correct, please read it carefully quantity ordered 5000 quantity completed 3000 And in the right down corner WO subtotal 32,042.79 - Cost rcvd -19,289.86 Mthd chg var 0.00 ------------------------------ Balance...

Hi, Tomhas I want to listen to your opinion on "Doing the logic in Progress, Front end in .Net". What is the advantage of this type of model over the other competitive solutions. I saw Vantage is doing that, QAD is also going this direction. Thanks & Best Regards Willy Song

Good question. SAP is developed using ABAP, a 4GL development language + database management tool developed by SAP. It is owned by SAP and is not open for sale on the market. I lists the differences between ABAP and Progress 4GL 1 . ABAP supports all major databases. So far Progress ABL...

If it is a business logic intensive application, progress will let you to focus more on the programming for business logic. It is a natural business logic language. If you are using C++ or C#, a lot of SQL sentence are to blended with method calls to execute the SQL sentence, difficult to...

Up to now, I havn't seen any ERP software is particularly strong and easy enough in distribution and warehouse mgmt by the user criteria. (SAP, Oracle, QAD, Axapta). Most of the unused functions and modules will be a nuisance if you go for ERP packages and use its distribution and warehousing...

I guess your problem maybe because when you receive your last work order into inventory, material issue has not been recorded fully at that point of time E.g. STD usage FG - A $100 Raw material B $20 1...

There could be serveral causes If you are using last cost or avg cost as your current cost set and your last production order are recieved before the materials are fully issued. Or You just went live not long ago, you forgot the update the current cost of the initial stock and you are...

In Mfg/Pro, the work order / inventories/ purchase orders are not pegged to the sales order. Don't believe it if any one tells you Mfg/Pro can. Mfg/Pro basically only supports make to stock and configure to order. SAP fits your requirement perfectly. Mfg/Pro is the wrong tool for this...

These days, COBOL and ABAP guys are making stable and good money. They are not fancy, they are so clumsy and stupid by Java guy's standard. A huge lot of applications are written by COBOL ABAP and Progress. I strongly believe that complex business Logic on Java or C# is stupid direction...