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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (1476)	5/4/1998 6:06:00 PM
From: Melissa McAuliffe	Read Replies (1) of 6974

Kevin, >>Thus, the upgrade to the new products must not only be complete and seamless, but nearly instantaneous. Is this something new....an instantaneous upgrade?? Whatever happened to testing and parallel processing? You don't just turn off one product and turn the other one on without doing this, do you? >> It leaves the door open for other vendors to re-enter; why not do a reevaluation of vendors if you have to start over anyway? First of all most customers do not want to change vendors. Worst case they will want to be sold on why they shouldn't so this should not be a problem for sebl since, as we know, sales is sebl's strength. Second, even if it required a complete reimplementation(which I am not saying btw) you are forgetting that they have already paid for the software. Are these other vendors going to give their software away? I doubt it. And last but not least there is no way that the costs to convert to a completely new system from a new vendor would not significantly exceed the costs to convert from one product/architecture to another from the same company. Let's make the assumption here that sebl isn't just going to say here's the new stuff. You figure it out. There may be some additional work involved, granted but sebl will certainly do as much as possible to make this conversion as seamless and as painless as possible. Even if it was a completely new product and sebl scrapped the scop product completely they would still be able to do a lot of this since they have access to both systems. Of course, I'm certain there are those of you (no need to mention names at this point)who will totally disagree with me since they don't think sebl has figured anything out.

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