platform, etc. The company won't give out details about the system to ppl
like me who are trying to 'steal their business'. I know that the DB is
Sybase from the little that I could get.
From meeting with the company and them showing me the system, it is a
command line interface (some sort of unix flavor, I think), with 'modules'
that are GUI.
The sheer size and the things that this system can do and does would make
it a yearlong project for us to recode, and I KNOW that the Oil company
would not pay for that. It wouldn't be impossible, and actually would be
pretty cool, but you know how clients are, and I ain't taking this on
pro-bono. It also doesn't help that almost all (they claim) oil companies
use this as an 'industry standard'. They aren't going anywhere soon....
http://www.addsys.com/ is the company's site.
But, all this is neither here nor there at this point, as we had a meeting
with them today, and they are purchasing a version upgrade which will let
them do exactly what I need. Right now they have a way of exporting print
reports based on what they want output (customer account, del'y address,
next del'y date, last pmt amount, etc etc), but not in any form that I can
use, as the data is all over the place. The 'version upgrade' addresses
this issue and more, so once that is purchased, I will be fine.
Thanks for all your help though guys. I owe everyone on this list a beer
if I ever get to one of these conferences!
Ray
At 09:36 PM 8/27/2004, you wrote:
>Yeah, me too!
>
>I googled & the only thing close I found was a dead link for:
>
>http://www.addsys.com/
>
>If this app is priced like I think it is, they could pay someone (Ray)
>to completely recode the app in CF, buy the box and CF for less than
>ADD annual maintenance costs.
>
>And the client would own the code and not be held ransom by some
>company that's gonna' proprietary & price itself right outta' business
>
>Maybe this could be the first annual "CF is better application hacking"
>contest.
>
>Dick
>
>On Aug 27, 2004, at 6:18 PM, Eric Dawson wrote:
>
> > Well you got me curious. can you send more information on the system,
> > platforms, websites etc
> >
> > Do they have any addon reporting or analysis packages?
>
>
>
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