[DUG] Demoing at a DUG Meeting - Accredo or otherwise

[Max Nilson]

Neven replied to me: 

> Your paradigm has always been that the technical stuff is profax's 
> domain and that works when your implementors are endusers and 
> accountants, it doesn't make for a product that can be used as a 
> component by other technicians

Well oddly enough our implementors are endusers and accountants, and these
are the market we have designed and built for for 20 plus years. Its
extensibility is intended to make the endusers and accountants life easier,
and to support the unique business requirements each of our customers has.
The decision was made to do this using a VB clone to have maximum friendless
and familiarity to a customer base that was confortable with MS Office and
little else.

> As far as I'm concerned MYOB has that area covered,

<scarcasm on>
MYOB. Right.
<scarcasm off>

> My advice
> would be in order to grow your product (and I forsee it being a v 
> difficult market in the next few years esp if M$ start playing tricks) 
> would be expose your layers 6 ways from sunday, use MSSQL in a 
> INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE mode, middle tier all the data integrity (RI in 
> the DB but that can be done in a case tool) COM business objects and 
> trade on your excellent UI skills, Then you would be a seroius 
> contender for MySAP, Narvision etc

Nice design, but not one that can be installed or supported us or by our
existing partners. We have not gone down this route exactly because we don't
want to alienate our existing dealers, support people and customers. It's a
business decision, not a programming one.

> Neven (Soon to retire to sunny Hawkes Bay and grow truffles)

Yummmy truffles!

Cheers, Max.