This sounds like SAP, a client-server database application from a German company that ties together inventory, purchasing, general ledger, payroll, personnel, etc. My plan for socialism is to install SAP globally. That was a piece of the software that I posted a while back in my debate with Robin Hahnel. Louis Proyect On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, D Shniad wrote: > I would like to see some support for this categorical statement that > seems widely accepted here on Pen. I heard a management presentation > from executives at BC Tel that described a $43 million system they're > putting in place that will integrate all activity within the company on a > single data base. This means that service reps will type in a customer's > specs, which will generate ordering data for materials, schedule workers' > time to do the related work, link up with accounting, etc. >