mrt@oregon.uoregon.edu (Michelle Thibault) (05/10/89)
Hi! I've got a question which I was wondering if someone could help me with. Has anybody out there ever heard of a software package called SOLOMON? It is either a database package or some type of accounting software. I'm trying to find out if anyone out there has used it as I have a friend whose company is currently using and having a lot of problems getting features they need! My understanding is that SOLOMON runs on PCs set up under some type of networking software. If anybody has any knowledge of this system, could you please send me e-mail, so we can discuss some specific issues? Thanks a lot! -- Michelle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michelle Thibault INTERNET: mrt@uoregon.cc.oregon.edu Networks Programmer (& grad. student) BITNET: mrt@oregon University of Oregon ** "I don't claim anything, so why Eugene, Oregon 97401 should I have a disclaimer...?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) (05/14/89)
In article <1758@oregon.uoregon.edu> mrt@oregon.uoregon.edu (Michelle Thibault) writes: |Has anybody out there ever heard of a software package called SOLOMON? Solomon is an accounting and inventory control package. It is quite good and quite expensive. While it *can* be run on a single PC, it's not very cost-effective to do so. I believe it is intended to be networked with Novell but it has been awhile so I could be mixing it up with R:Base. Solomon has consistently been rated "excellent" by reviewers, both for its features and its documentation. The product is one of the best PC-based products on the market. You pay for this excellence; I believe the base system was around $3000 and additional modules cost around $1000. These prices are purely from memory and should not be considered accurate; I'm just giving you an idea of what you'll be getting into. If you need what Solomon provides, it is definitely worth the money. jim frost madd@bu-it.bu.edu
UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (05/18/89)
In article <1758@oregon.uoregon.edu>, mrt@oregon.uoregon.edu (Michelle Thibault) says: >Has anybody out there ever heard of a software package called SOLOMON? It >is either a database package or some type of accounting software. I'm I vaguely recollect that Solomon is a full featured Accounting System built in one of the datbase languages available from mdbs, Inc., of Lafayette, Indiana. They make the Guru Expert System, Knowledgeman, and what they call a "post relational" system called (I think) mdbs. "Post relational" seems to mean they have a relational language overlay on a network model implementation, so the administrator can get high performance by setting up certain commonly used access paths, yet the users can still write the occasional bass ackwards query.
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 -- {allegra killer gatech!uflorida decvax!ucf-cs}!ki4pv!cdis-1!cdin-1!icdi10!fr 26 Warren St. ...{bellcore rutgers bpa uunet}!cdin-1!icdi10!fr Beverly, NJ 08010 or INTERNET: fred@cdin-1.uu.net or fr@icdi10.UUCP 609-386-6846 "Freude... Alle Menschen werden Brueder..." - Schiller