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To: Ray Rueb who wrote (1538)	7/20/1998 4:34:00 PM
From: Ibexx	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3424

Ray, Thanks for sharing the BAANF article, I was in this stock last year only briefly, and am glad to be out of it. R/3's implementation nightmares seem a thing of the past. A couple of years ago (may be three) DELL had to drop R/3 because of imlementation difficulties, but then DELL is--and was--by no means a high-tech power house in the league of Hewlett Packard (or CPQ of today), and Michael Dell doesn't believe box makers need anything more sophisticated than a few pairs of screw drivers. <g> Regards, Ibexx

To: Ray Rueb who wrote (1538)	7/20/1998 5:32:00 PM
From: Umnik	Respond to of 3424

Re: Interesting article from the BAANF thread... Typical of BAAN. I haven't heard any SAP horror stories lately. There was an article in InfoWeek couple of weeks ago about FoxMeyer(?) suing Anderson Consulting(!) for $500M. Their claim is that Anderson botched the R/3 implementation so badly that it drove the company into Ch. 11 and then this formerly $1-2B company was bought by a competitor for $80M. Now, the key points: 1. the actual "implementation" occured a couple of years ago when SAP relied much more on partners to control the implementation rather than to supply consultants; 2. SAP is not in any way is part of this legal mess. Umnik.