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From: "Robert Everland III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 12 September 2000 03:09
> You know you're right and it wasn't my first decision to sell it for $5,000
> I consulted someone else. So in light of this discussion I will now have the
> same deal all source codes, SQL scripts, tech support and updates for a year
> now only for $500. I have not and would not want to pay too much for an
> application and I hope $500 is a more fair price with everyone. Thanks for
> the feedback from the forum.
That's some reduction - if only everything where reduced by a factor of 10 :-)
The main issue is though - does it directly and seemlessly integrate (or
easily made to) with Hotel legacy and real-time booking systems - i.e. so it
is_totally_automated. If not it has very limited value because it means people
manually updating both systems.
I was amazed for instance (to say the least) when I discovered that the brand
new "online banking service" recently launched by my bank - one of the biggest
in the UK and the world - had a manual backend! I discovered (after a clerical
error was made on my account), that after a transaction was input online, it
would go like an email to a manual operator sitting at a desk, only to be
printed out and manually keyed into their computer system!
So much for progress :-)
Online systems which do interface with legacy and RT systems really are worth
$$$$$.
Adrian Cooper.
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