RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Windows 2003 66-95% faster the Linux

[Mike Pepper <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

It is called APS or Advanced Procurement Systems.
It allows our Store to track inventory, it allows end users to order
inventory, it also has a section that allows us to have all of the
vendors, and all bids in it. It is a pretty robust program, just out
dated. There is not much on market to replace it. We have looked into
having it rewritten, but it is too complex, and the users too resiliant to
change :-\ Sooo.... were stuck that the moment.

Mike

On Tue, 6 May 2003, Michael wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 11:38:21 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
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> Is it secret what sort of software it is? Just curious. Was it custom
> programmed for them or off the shelf? My favorite example was a point of
> sale app that stored all product information, sales records, etc for a
> company I worked for. It was sort of a customized off the shelf product.
> It was very funny to me when the news came in that they could never
> upgrade because the company that sold them the software evidently kept the
> source code and all backups on a single server that had had a total disk
> failure.
>
> > That is the situation that we are in here. The software was purchased well
> > over 12 years ago, and was the top of the heap then. The problem is that
> > no one has been willing,< both programmers, and end users> to keep up with
> > the current technology. This beast has to run on Netware Servers, On a old
> > version of Btreive, and has to run the IPX protocol. I use a Citrix
> > Terminal Server to tunnel the program so that users can access it via
> > TCP-IP. But now I'm stuck using the old Terminal Server as well since the
> > new server won't run the old stuff. It must be able to run it in order to
> > publish it.
> > <yes it's hell being me>  <grin>
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