On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jason Rennie wrote:
> > From past memory, there is a product called STX (doze based) distributed
> > by a company called Leadtec in Melbourne. Give them a try.
>
> I talked to them, they wanted something in the price range of a newborn
> infant ;) Also there product wasn't significantly different ti what we
> have.
Heh.. brings back memories... Someone at a company I worked for bought a
$60k piece of Winblows software that was supposed to "Solve all our EDI
problems".. (Namely.. integrating the 17 different EDI gateways we had)..
Well.. It was the biggest white elephant ever in the history of the
company. It had all this flashy graphics, and the "virtual office" and
all.. and it did sweet F* all else.. It was actually harder to set it up,
than to whip out a perl script to do the translations..
Some guy was sucked in by some flashy graphics and a cool salesman..
Very expensive mistake though.
Oh yeah.. and Winblows only.. Yeah.. lets run the $160 million dollars
worth of EDI business though a scummy Windows NT server.. (Running on a
desktop mind you).
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