After Aaron Anderson said:

> I have been a Cort user for years on the HP3000.  I am loving
> the Cort PC package that we are going to.....
> The PC stuff is really good ......

Paul Christidis came back:

> .....  It has been a little over 1 year that we are using the PC
> version of Cort payroll and there are lots of scars to show for it.
> Here is a partial list:

> 1.  Constant hardware updates.  ....
> 2.  Slow processing.  Report that would take just a few minutes
>      on the 3K take hours on the NT server.  ....
> 3.  Data base corruption.  ....
> 4.  Partial reports.  ....
> 5.  No batch.  ....
> 6.  Counter problems/overflows.  ....
> 7.  Alphanumeric payroll numbers.  They are allowed only in
>      some contexts.  .....
> 8.  Difficulty updating master data.  .....
> 9.  Support.

hmmm.....  guess I totally missed something....  surely
"The PC stuff is really good" and the above 1-9 items
could not both apply to the same piece of software...
wait a minute.....  maybe I've got it:  The first user said
"we ARE GOING to" (future tense);  second user said
"has been a little over 1 year that we ARE USING"...
....  yeah;  that might be it.....

The "have been using" item that stands out for me is the
"just a few minutes on the 3K take hours on the NT server".
"Few" and "hours" are of course pretty elastic words in this
context, and we don't know the relative sizes of the boxes,
but still.........

Ken Sletten