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  • 1.  Good bye Sage Billing Boss. Retiring as of 12/14/2

    Posted 08-23-2012 16:11
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    Good bye Sage Billing Boss. Retiring as of 12/14/2012


  • 2.  RE: Good bye Sage Billing Boss. Retiring as of 12/14/2

    Posted 08-23-2012 16:19
    I hardly knew ya. RIP!


  • 3.  RE: Good bye Sage Billing Boss. Retiring as of 12/14/2

    Posted 08-23-2012 18:57
    File under: Things you thought had already been eliminated


  • 4.  RE: Good bye Sage Billing Boss. Retiring as of 12/14/2

    Posted 08-23-2012 19:27
    Was anyone using this?


  • 5.  RE: Good bye Sage Billing Boss. Retiring as of 12/14/2

    Posted 08-24-2012 05:28
    Sage continues to clean house. Fewer products should lead to focused efforts on those remainng. Does anyone believe this or is Sage just reducing costs? I want to believe it is a refocus, but more likely is just more cost reductions.


  • 6.  RE: Good bye Sage Billing Boss. Retiring as of 12/14/2

    Posted 08-24-2012 05:51
    Yes, I know few people used the thing, but this is a harbinger of what cloud/saas users have to look forward to. : 1) When premise application reaches the point of low unit sales or profitability, companies can just cut way back on R&D and still slowly bleed off maintenance as we've seen with MAS90 for many years. When a SaaS product is deemed no longer profitable, there is still a substantial ongoing cost to keep it hosted, running, backed up, supported etc. 2) When the premise app. finally 'dies', even if the company files a sudden Chapter 7, your program can continue to run for years or even decades. Worst case if it loses OS compatibility, you run it virtualized. When a SaaS vendor goes belly up, its instant annihilation, often little or no access to your data, and you need to find, purchase, data convert, , implement, train and go live with a new ERP system in weeks at the most as most companies can't survive without their ERP systems more than a month and stay solvent. File this away as a prescient warning that a day of reckoning is coming to saas.


  • 7.  RE: Good bye Sage Billing Boss. Retiring as of 12/14/2

    Posted 08-24-2012 06:18
    Wasn't there a Star Trek episode where Kirk or Picard encountered an old computer installation mysteriously running and the crew had to figure out what was happening? Reminds me of Mark's scenario above.