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To: Patriarch who wrote (2985)	1/29/1999 6:48:00 AM
From: Mao II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3424

Patriarch: This piece is a real trashing. It basically argues -- in an almost personal way - that SAP is run by a junta of greedy arrogant grubbers who have hired an army of bozos to hoodwink corporate America. M2

To: Patriarch who wrote (2985)	1/29/1999 10:43:00 AM
From: Mark Brophy	Respond to of 3424

The article isn't fair. If you think SAP R/3 will improve your business, it doesn't matter how big or small your company. Advanced Energy uses SAP and they're a small company. I think the biggest risk for SAP is the $200/hour programmers. For many companies, it's a lot cheaper to hire 2 $100/hour programmers to develop custom database apps. Many poorly run big companies like to spend huge amounts of shareholder money and an expensive R/3 implementation makes them feel important. It's like those guys on Wall Street with Sun workstations at their desks when a PC could do the job fine. SAP is shrugging off the PeopleSoft news. I guess the market believes that the bad news is already factored into the price.