2003-03-15 It seems to me SYSPRO may have been caught with their pants down. They came out with a product first, only in FFU. They may have thought that everyone every where really uses FFU or wants to and only in "evil" countries are the people forced to use "metric". so, they only make an FFU product.
They may also have thought that they can do their part to promote FFU in the metric world. They produce an FFU only product and everyone who buys it will have no choice but to adapt to FFU. A sneaky way to get FFU into common use elsewhere. But hen one of two things happens: 1.) Nobody outside the US buys the product. They claim it is of no use to them because they don't use FFU. They need a product only in SI or, 2.) Those who do buy it find the information is useless, and contact SYSPRO and insist they got a bum product. They want SYSPRO to fix the "error" or refund their money. Not wanting to lose customers, they decide they have no choice but to come out with an SI version. In this case, the REAL marketplace decided what the people really can use, not what some American businesses want to force onto the world. John euroisation = metrication no euro; no metric help bring an end to FFU by bringing an end to dollar hegemony. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carter, Baron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2003-03-10 08:29 Subject: [USMA:25094] RE: SYSPRO Releases Metric Version of Material Yield System (2) > I see the article contains typical linguistic gymnastics to sort of imply > that the US is not alone. > > "The Metric System is used in nearly every country in the world, with the > exception of the U.S.," > > What is the purpose of the word 'nearly'. 'Nearly' implies more than one > country. Yet there is only one country listed as an exception. The > statement is illogical. The writer tries to imply that the US is not alone > by inserting the word 'nearly'. Unfortunately we see these linguistic > liberties being taken daily in our news fodder. Anyone who has done > Marketing/Propaganda 101 knows the power of subtlety. > > Whilst I am glad to see that another software company acknowledges the > metric system, their press release could have been a lot more positive. > > cheers > Baron > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nat Hager III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 08 March, 2003 14:13 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:25070] SYSPRO Releases Metric Version of Material Yield > System (2) > > > Someone might find interesting, though I might refer to the systems US > legacy units vs. Standard Metric. > > Nat > > http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030303/lam007_1.html > >
