Sun/4 for accounting software (not IBM!)

[Chris Hermansen]

In article <5011 at brazos.Rice.edu> nova!hart at decwrl.dec.com (Howard C. Hart) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 34, message 13
>
>In article <4531 at brazos.Rice.edu> mtm at igor.philips.com (Marie McCall) writes:
>>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 16, message 13 of 18
>>
>>*PLEASE HELP ME CONVINCE THE CONTROLLER SUN IS THE WAY TO GO, NOT IBM!!*
>>
>>We are currently considering purchasing a Sun/4 to run interactive A/P,
>>G/L, labor distribution, job cost system, and Fixed Assets.  We are
>
>Unfortunetly, I'd tend to argue the other way. I'm no fan of IBM's, but
>the one thing they do do right is transaction processing and accounting.
>Sun fails pretty miserably in that department. We've tryed to get some
>kind of decent accounting out of our Suns via the UNIX supplied sa
>command. 

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Umm, Mr. Hart, I don't think Ms. McCall is talking about system
accounting.  The sa utilities certainly aren't much good at transaction
processing, though :-)

There are all kinds of third party systems for A/P, G/L, and Job Costing.
They run on all kinds of computers, too.  Many of those packages are in
fact PC based, and therefore are not particularly oriented toward
transaction processing.  I would be willing to bet a pizza that most
commercial UN*X installations (ie, XE*X) exist solely to address these
problems.

I'd suggest having a good look in the Catalyst catalog for this kind of
stuff.  As well, Sun makes(?) a project management facility called
SunTrac, but this may be oriented too much toward software projects.

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