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.