fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home) (05/22/89)
In article <31093@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes: >|In article <1758@oregon.uoregon.eduJF> mrt@oregon.uoregon.edu (Michelle Thibault) writes: >|Has anybody out there ever heard of a software package called SOLOMON? JF> JF>Solomon is an accounting and inventory control package. It is quite JF>good and quite expensive. While it *can* be run on a single PC, it's While most of the big 8 have regularly recommended Solomon this may be due in part to it's extreme complexity. It does bring in consulting fees, you know. The software used MDBS III as its database handler and in that context is very sophisticated with it's many data paths and connected data sets. Sorting is really never necessary. The problem is that any external problem can easily leave a database corrupt. Therefore the system has extensive backup thru transaction logging built in to its everyday operation. This creates overhead and slowness. JF>Solomon has consistently been rated "excellent" by reviewers, both for JF>its features and its documentation. The product is one of the best JF>PC-based products on the market. This is not true. Recent reviews of multi-user accounting systems have left Solomon in last place behind such products as Real World and others. The reviewers lament the fact that the software by now is badly aged and has not kept up with the market. Database security is cited as a big problem. JF>You pay for this excellence; I believe the base system was around JF>$3000 and additional modules cost around $1000. These prices are JF>purely from memory and should not be considered accurate; I'm just JF>giving you an idea of what you'll be getting into. If you need what JF>Solomon provides, it is definitely worth the money. TLB, the author of Solomon, has been valiantly struggling to get a Unix/Xenix version into the market. Various announcements have been made in the past. I still know of no release in this environment for real business accounting. The Novell setup is a cludge at best. And as Doug Michels has often said: "There still is no accounting application that can run in real life on a dos network." The above comment by JF should be held in context of what big 8 accounting sells and recommends as safe: IBM and anything that costs a lot. (If it costs that much, it must be good!) Fred Rump icdi10!fr@cdin-1.uu.net -- This is my house. My castle will get started right after I finish with news. 26 Warren St. ...{dsinc bpa uunet}!cdin-1!icdi10!fr Beverly, NJ 08010 or INTERNET: fred@cdin-1.uu.net or icdi10!fr@icdi10.uu.net 609-386-6846 "Freude... Alle Menschen werden Brueder..." - Schiller