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Tommy Johnson Browser Posts: 36 Gender:	Re: How many? Reply #15 - 04/15/03 at 10:52:58 No, I have not heard that news, but I come to expect DBA's story to change depending on the day of the week. We have not gotten any emails from DBA. If that is the case, we will take a look at it to see if will work better for us or not.
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Karen Mason Active Member Ain't life grand!?! Posts: 728 Gender:	Re: How many? Reply #16 - 04/15/03 at 11:06:39 We have not "heard the news" either. There doesn't seem to be anything on the DBA site. When this Ezijobz was first mentioned, I figured it was another program, not something DBA was migrating to.
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aricon Active Member Systems Consulting-See website for products! Posts: 1283 Gender:	Re: How many? Reply #17 - 04/15/03 at 11:14:31 Karen, They are not truly migrating to it. It isa new program. But there will be a utility to convert some data from your existing system to the Ezijobz system should you want to go there.
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mtp137 Browser Posts: 18 Gender:	Re: How many? Reply #18 - 04/15/03 at 14:35:52 We to will evaluate it, if the "free" copy is forthcoming. But, no plans to switch, as we have not even finished getting DBA up and running yet.
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aricon Active Member Systems Consulting-See website for products! Posts: 1283 Gender:	Re: How many? Reply #19 - 04/15/03 at 14:39:59 Hmmm..... All these folks that haven't gotten DBA up-and-running, and consultants like me looking for business......yet I don't get very many calls...... ??? Something wrong with this picture, or is it just me? ???
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mtp137 Browser Posts: 18 Gender:	Re: How many? Reply #20 - 04/15/03 at 15:02:16 At least for us, it is simply a data entry issue. Not too many snags yet, just too few people working on it. (And all of us, only when we aren't doing any of our 10 other jobs.)
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dorner Browser I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 48	Re: How many? Reply #21 - 04/15/03 at 20:14:00 We have been using DBA for 2 years and have to need or desire to change to any other software. It does what we want it to do and everyone is familiar with it. We will probably look at Ezijobs but unless it transfers data completely (which I think I read it will not) there is no way we will use it. Mike Balsewicz Dorner Products, Inc
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aricon Active Member Systems Consulting-See website for products! Posts: 1283 Gender:	Re: How many? Reply #22 - 04/16/03 at 10:08:25 Well....if the posts on this topic so far are a reasonable statistical indication of the likelihood of adoption for Ezijobz, then I would have to say that Mike had better roll out the marketing and sales machine to start seelling it to NEW customers.....
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JLZimm Member Posts: 57 Gender:	Re: How many? Reply #23 - 04/19/03 at 14:22:40 I have had enough trouble just getting the feathers smoothed down here each time something changes. We will evaluate the new product, but are extremely unlikely to switch soon, unless there are overpowering functionality reasons to do so. Jeanette Zimmerman Lowery & Company Inc.
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kathySMC Browser Posts: 40	Re: How many? Reply #24 - 05/05/03 at 15:30:37 Quote from aricon on 04/12/03 at 10:38:44: I'm curious as to how many companies that are currently using DBA will very likely go to Ezijobz? Would love to hear responses on this.
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kathySMC Browser Posts: 40	Re: How many? Reply #25 - 05/05/03 at 15:33:41 If we don't switch, are we going to be left in the dust by DBA with unsupported product and updates? ???
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Reply #26 - 05/05/03 at 16:01:15

Kathy,

Obviously no one except Mike could answer this with certainty. What I can say, is that in my experience with Great Plains when they re-wrote GPA DOS version into Dynamics, they supported GPA fully for 2 years after the launch of Dynamics. They then did limited support for another 2 years. And then clients were cut loose on their own.

Now, Great Plains was an $500 Million+ corporation at that point and that is the longest they were willing to go. DBA is NOT $500 Million.

So you will have to make your own conclusions.... ???

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Reply #27 - 05/05/03 at 16:34:35

The reason I started IS Tech Support is to do exactly that - provide support and updates for the existing product. DBA has already taken the stand that there will be no more updates to the existing product other than essential bug fix patches. They say they will "continue to support it" meaning they will be happy to take your tech support money and let you talk to or email the support staff but if there are program changes or enhancements you want, it isn't going to happen to DBA Manufacturing.

IS Tech Support on the other hand, is offering continual updates and enhancements to DBA Manufacturing in an effort to provide a valuable service to however many of the 3800 customers that elect not to dump what they have spent considerable time and effort implementing and start over learning a new system. Based on the responses to Lorne's original post, I suspect that will be a significant percentage of them.

Unfortunately, for services other than this free forum, there is a modest cost involved. A $35/month company (not per user) support subscription will get you all the program enhancements and higher level will get direct and unlimited email and telephone support. The $35/month level is not great enough to be a major financial decision for most companies but with enough participants, we will be able to provide programming resources to continually improve the product and be responsive to user requests. See www.istechsupport.com/download.asp for a description of what has been done in a few short months.

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Reply #28 - 05/06/03 at 08:55:55

We plan on converting to the new Program, we will wait for a while to see on it is doing in the real world.

We had a IBM system and we made the mistake not to keep updating the system. Then one day we started having programs and found we would have to update if we wanted any support because no one have the old code available. The Cost of the update was unreal. That when we switched to DBA.

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Reply #29 - 05/06/03 at 11:37:37

We have been running DBA since 6/1/1996. DBA doesn't do everything we would like in the mannor which we would like, but it is serviceable and a good value.

Two of the main drawbacks in DBA are resolved in ezjjob.
The DBA database design is, to be polite, primative. The TAS 5.0 language is a little slow. Both of these ought to be resolved in ezijob.

We have a lot of data and hope the performance of ezijob is an improvement over the current version.

Bill Leventhal
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