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To: MJ who wrote (371)12/17/1997 1:10:00 AM
From: Bruce Smith  Respond to of 915
 
SSA is the biggest ERP supplier on AS/400s, with around 8K sites. But there are over 400K AS/400s installed worldwide.

IBM claims there are over 20K software packages available for AS/400 (manufacturing, banking, distribution etc etc), and some users still write their own programs.

Biggest competitors are JDE, PRMS (from Computer Associates), JBA, MAPICS, Movex etc. SAP's R/3 now runs on it, but early days yet. I'm sure Baan & PeopleSoft are working on converting to it as well, now that the AS/400 is more 'open' & conversion is possible..

Hope this helps.