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Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 2 Feb 1999 17:54:28 +0000
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At my job we've replaced Growthpower in a couple of places with CA-MANMAN.

This is not a great technology leap, (HP BASIC to FORTRAN) but mainly to
move to an application that works properly and is Y2K compliant.

Not because CA-MANMAN is slick or written in a "hot" language.

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Therm-O-Link wrote:

> Tom writes:
>
> >We plan on replacing Growthpower within three years
> >simply because our volume is about to outstrip Growthpower's capacity.
> >(SO Number, Invoice Number, Customer Number, and so on are limited to 6
> >digits. Also, it's written in old classical HP basic).
>
> Do you mean that because it's not written in Java or whatever the "hot"
> language du jour is, it should be replaced?  I know that's not your primary

Tracy Johnson
"Trust No One" - Semper Gumby

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