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Technology Stocks : PSFT - 1997 Outlook [closed thread] -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Fletch who wrote (597)	12/7/1997 11:35:00 AM
From: Melissa McAuliffe	Respond to of 940

Fletch, Thanks for the response. Not to belabor this issue but all I am trying to find out is whether PSFT's products today in the MRP area are the end product that they plan to offer. In other words, is this their complete manufacturing solution? For some reason I think there is more product yet to become available, but as I said in an earlier post I may well be misinformed here. Here's a question--can PSFT today go head to head with SAP in a full manufacturing deal and compete with available products? I think I read somewhere in the last several months that they were still not quite there. This is perfectly ok with me and I am not trying to raise this as a negative issue but rather view it as an additional revenue stream in the future, i.e. an area for more growth. Some of the components of a manufacturing system which are not part of an ERP solution are modules such as Master Production Scheduling and others which manage the actual manufacturing of a product in a plant environment. This is the stuff that SAP has today, it's the ERP piece that they are missing and from what I understand have now chosen to develop internally vs. their original idea of partnerships with companies such as ITWO. What products are coming out of the PeopleMan project? Is that still ongoing as a separate entity? I think that once the products are completed this will become a part of PSFT vs. a separate company. Maybe it already has and I just missed it. Melissa