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> Jim put me in touch directly with the head of the
> accounting dept. She brushed  me off after a 2 minute conversation,
without
> (again)
> even looking at my system or asking any questions.

I admitted in my post that "I lost the good fight to keep our accounting
system on the HP3000".  I was not seeking to blame the software vendors for
that particular fiasco.  That was mostly my fault (for not getting involved
sooner in the acquistion cycle), so now I am trying to get involved from the
beginning and am hitting some walls.

Jim Phillips                            Manager of Information Systems
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]     Therm-O-Link, Inc.
Phone: (330) 527-2124                   P. O. Box 285
  Fax: (330) 527-2123                   Garrettsville, Ohio  44231

>
> I think part of the problem is many Accounting Curriculums today use
> BillWare to teach with. This creates a bias that I have encountered over
the
> years. When the colleges promote the use of MS Excell over other products,
> the finacial folks naturally want what they are familiar with.
>
> I have spent large amounts of time educating finance managers on
> reliability, maintenance and support issues surounding 'their' data.
> Unfortunately, most of these folks did the bare minimum for their CS
classes
> in college and still treat the computer systems as a magical box.
>
> Personally, I started with the HP3000 while in college. That is perhaps
the
> main reason I am on the box today. I would like to see HP get this box
into
> these institutions as a learning tool so perhaps other will be influenced
> into the future.