Antiquated Software

[butch at rich.srcoils.com]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 10:17A Thu Jan 19 2006, Doug Luurs wrote:

> I've been trying to ignore this thread, but I think my time as come to
> put
> 2 cents in.

Same here...  I have seen this flame-war for a few days and tried in vain to 
ignore it as well.

Here at Super Radiator Coils in Richmond (and the outlying plants in 
Minneapolis and Phoenix), we've been using filePro for years and years and 
years.  I think our first record in our order history file has a creation date 
somewhere around 1983!

filePro has worked well for what we do and what use it's reports and processing 
for.  However, {this greatly pains me to write this...} apparantly it has come 
time to look to to the future and see if anything is greener on the other side 
of the fence.  As it stands Super Radiator Coils is looking at other database 
products and software bundles instead of filePro!!!!!  :-(

Why is Super Radiator Coils going to change?  Well, they had a huge corporate 
meeting a few weeks ago at year end.  filePro just doesn't do what they are 
looking for it to do in the future.  Mainly, our engineering design and autocad 
drafting products don't "play nice" with filePro.

As it stands, Super Radiator is looking at ERP software products and will most 
likely start migrating around 2007-2008.

I was also quietly, privately, pulled aside (you know what I mean) and was told  
"if you want to save your a$$, you better look at Visual Basic.NET and SQL 
databases, so you can help support the new software".

My God... Can you believe this?!?!  How many other companies are looking at 
phasing out filePro because of its limitations?

Yes, I am still in shock....

Butch Ammon
Super Radiator Coils
Richmond, VA