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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (7234)	5/29/1998 11:46:00 AM
From: Steve C.	Respond to of 19080

I didn't say you didn't know what you were talking about, I said you didn't know what I was talking about. I edited it out because I figured it would be misunderstood. Anyway, I'm not familiar with Crossworlds. Frameworks like what IBM is working on will provide a basis for much easier communication between business objects. There are several companies building ERP components upon this framework (not any of the big four so far). These intra-enterprise transactions are like spagetti code all the way. And mgmt never, never wants their in house app to dictate their business processes. Build code on solid foundations and you don't have so much spaghetti. Building these types of architectures is what I have been doing the last ten years. And many companies are starting to let the ERP software change the way they do business. In some cases the processes, too (I don't want to open up this can of worms, but some companies do find benefit in letting the software dictate at least some processes). Using these types of frameworks in existing products would require complete rewrites. That's why I say that companies like Oracle may not take that route. But other companies will, because there's a need. The point being, there is consolidation towards one vendor occuring within the intranet. Even with a single vendor the complexity of a complete ERP solution will mean that a single company will simply not have enough resources to do a good job in all areas. Large software packages (not just in the ERP market) require multiple vendors to provide the solution for a single company. And the frameworks that I'm talking about will allow this to happen without so much spaghetti and heartache. By the way, I would not recommend a multi-vendor ERP solution in the current state of the industry because it is so hard to get them to work together right now. But five years down the line I think multi-vendor business components will not only be feasible, but the big trend. Anyway, I'm off to evaluate someone's ERP solution, so have a good weekend. Steve