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To: Gary Gwynn who wrote (15224)	1/25/2001 1:27:08 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 19080

Gary, I got a question for you. I am not a tech guy, but I have run companies which had to make decisions regarding major software installations. SAP seemed to me to be an expensive pipe dream from day one. I checked about 2 years ago, and out of 150 top companies that had tried to implement it, 1.5 had succeeded in ONLY getting it installed. Was its popularity as a result of marketing prowess? Was the scheme to market it thru Anderson Consulting with Millions going for "consulting fees" the reason so many even tried it?? I really don't know. I am not looking for Grassy Knolls here but to me it is just plain incomprehensible why a company would ever consider SAP. Do you, or anyone, have any thoughts on this??? TIA DUKE. (you of course have seen that recent press release where a company called Sopay?? just took a 50 Mill write down to abandon its SAP efforts???)