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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (7981)	2/13/2003 11:38:19 PM
From: TEDennis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9677

Interesting factoid, Bob. Did you also notice: "Founded by an experienced management team, Arcidea enters the existing customer relationship management (CRM) market by targeting five specific vertical industries: Energy, Transportation, Medical Supply, Manufacturing, and Financial Services." Vertical applications, eh? And experienced management? Hmmmm ... One thing is for certain. They need help on their website. You'd think that whoever built that would test all accesses to the most frequently accessed page: arcidea.com You can get to the real page here: arcidea.com And, the designer must have been color blind. Dark blue, Light blue, Dark green, Medium green, Khaki green, and White areas with Black Text. Phew !! TED

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (7981)	2/14/2003 1:35:51 AM
From: TEDennis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9677

Well, here's that PR ... Epicor Announces New Version of its CRM Solution February 11, 2003 Epicor Software Corporation announces the availability of Clientele Customer Support 8.1 which utilizes the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET IDE (Integrated Development Environment) as its customization environment. By building the Clientele Software Development Kit (SDK) on top of Visual Studio .NET, customers, partners, and consultants can modify Clientele Customer Support quickly and easily, promoting a faster return on investment and a lower total cost of ownership. Clientele Customer Support 8.1 is expected to be generally available to customers later this month. Epicor plans to support the upcoming release of Visual Studio .NET 2003 with a currently scheduled update by Summer 2003. Clientele Customer Support is a complete call management solution for supporting external customers. This latest release builds on the award winning functionality of Clientele Customer Support 8.0, which hit the market last summer as one of the first CRM solutions architected for the Microsoft .NET Framework. By integrating with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, the only development environment built from the ground up for XML Web services, Clientele Customer Support 8.1 provides an object-oriented customization model that allows updates to forms, datasets, Web services and server business logic to be made quickly and easily from one location. "Clientele Customer Support 8.1 provides customers with a CRM solution to meet their business needs while increasing developer productivity and ease of use," says David Lazar, director for the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. "Epicor's decision to employ Visual Studio .NET as its single standard customization tool for Clientele Customer Support extends the already robust integration capabilities of the solution." Oh, wait .. sorry ... that wasn't FSTW's PR. But, the content was so much like what I was expecting from FSTW that I was fooled by it. Maybe FSTW can use this PR as a sample to build theirs from? Gosh. Who'da thunk it? A .NET based IDE that is used for customizing applications. Kinda' like a framework, huh? I wonder if Epicor payed $900,000 for theirs? TED