SAP it is, Louis. In promoting its worldwide application, I hope you qualified your argument a bit. (Please send me anything you have on it, BTW.) Sid Shniad > 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. > > > >