I can't imagine they are still running stuff on Vaxes, Puleeez. You mean its not in
color, no pull down chioce lists, not a mouse in sight, no sound cards, no visuals?
Unbelievable.
Well not many customers still use vaxes for their erp systems. The first generation of erp did primarily run on vaxes though. That was manman, maxim, (and maybe R2, not sure about that one). But for the 2nd generation which includes R3 and Oracle Finapps, starting in about 1992, unix was the primary platform, all of these have pull-down menus, by the way - actually they are automatic drop-down which is a requirement for data integrity. Then last year the vendors came out with NT versions, which were slow to catch on. Just as an example, even Dell's erp system (which currently is custom code, NOT R3 or Oracle) runs on a mainframe.
The reason for the allegiance to the character mode client is speed. Some order entry people need to enter an order every 5 seconds. Its just not possible with a mouse based gui of any kind.
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