Comments on: SAP Memories http://www.softwarememories.com/2005/12/11/sap-memories/ History of software, by somebody who lived it Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:36:06 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Curt Monash http://www.softwarememories.com/2005/12/11/sap-memories/#comment-23876 Curt Monash Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:26:51 +0000 http://www.softwarememories.com/?p=9#comment-23876 LOL, Bonnie. :) Sorry for not seeing your comment before. SOME people at MSA and M&D were fairly clueful. I made a lot of money in American Management Systems stock because the first time I met with Doug McIntyre -- when he was the first marketing VP at MSA -- he ran through a lot of competitors and told me AMS was the only one MSA couldn't beat. But SAP was also one of the toughest to beat, way back then. John Landry and Bob Weiler were also generally a lot more realistic about the market than their competitors were. Caustic, perhaps, but fairly realistic. CAM LOL, Bonnie. :)

Sorry for not seeing your comment before.

SOME people at MSA and M&D were fairly clueful. I made a lot of money in American Management Systems stock because the first time I met with Doug McIntyre — when he was the first marketing VP at MSA — he ran through a lot of competitors and told me AMS was the only one MSA couldn’t beat.

But SAP was also one of the toughest to beat, way back then.

John Landry and Bob Weiler were also generally a lot more realistic about the market than their competitors were. Caustic, perhaps, but fairly realistic.

CAM

]]> By: Bonnie Whiteaker http://www.softwarememories.com/2005/12/11/sap-memories/#comment-18183 Bonnie Whiteaker Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:09:11 +0000 http://www.softwarememories.com/?p=9#comment-18183 John, Don't know if you remember me, but I was Director of World Wide Education and Training. I started in the Huntsville, Alabama office that M&D bought. After the acquisition by DBS, I went to DBS Tronto, Canada for a couple of years. I still have in my possesion an email I sent to the Huntsville President and the Development Manager (who will remain nameless). I notified them that sudently on all of sales situations we running up aganist 2 companies; 1 a German company named SAP; and the other a small west coast company named PeopleSoft. The response I received, was "don't worry about them, they are fly by nights and will soon go away". On occasions when I see these 2 dear friends, I remind them of the email and they jokingly ask how much I want for them. John,
Don’t know if you remember me, but I was Director of World Wide Education and Training.
I started in the Huntsville, Alabama office that M&D bought. After the acquisition by DBS, I went to DBS Tronto, Canada for a couple of years.
I still have in my possesion an email I sent to the Huntsville President and the Development Manager (who will remain nameless). I notified them that sudently on all of sales situations we running up aganist 2 companies; 1 a German company named SAP; and the other a small west coast company named PeopleSoft. The response I received, was “don’t worry about them, they are fly by nights and will soon go away”.
On occasions when I see these 2 dear friends, I remind them of the email and they jokingly ask how much I want for them.

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