Brenda: If I understand correctly, your managers know little of IT while your IT know little about the business; they just "trust" each other. As a result, most of your managers and IT want that massive 99% of your IT, that is little related to your "core" business, to swallow up the 1% of your IT that is the "core" of the business.
I wonder if an MBA would have taught me this neat trick, or maybe this explains about outsourcing. :-) Bill >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brenda Price >Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 5:46 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [U2] converting from UniVerse on Redhat Linux to UniVerse on >Windows > >>>If, on the other hand, your U2 system and processes make up much more >than 1% of your business IT, which can easily be imagined because SQL >and OO infrastructure is bloated beyond belief, then realize you can >pretty much do anything with MV. It is a far, far, far better platform >for transaction processing than anything else you can imagine.<< > >We are a billing and collections company, UniVerse runs that. We also >sell a VisualFoxPro software that clients can use to run their Martial >Arts, Tanning Salons, Health Clubs on, checking customers in and for >those who want to handle the billing themselves, do the billing. For >those who want us to do the billing, that data is uploaded into our >UniVerse system. We have clients that do not have the VFP software that >we do billing and collections for, and clients that use our Windows >terminal services so that the data is in one repository at our site >running the VFP software, that data is also uploaded into the UniVerse >system for billings and collections. Everything except our old dialer >and UniVerse is on a Windows platform. That said, UniVerse is the core >of the business. You break that and you break the business. In fact >about 10-11 years ago, they did do something that screwed up the reports >where nothing matched for several months and almost folded because of >that. I don't know the exact details since I've only been here about 7 >years. >------- >u2-users mailing list >[email protected] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
