Who have brought the Vantage source code from e pico r?

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Bruce,

We added a custom Gage Crib Control package, Customer Specification Control,
Serial Number Tracking System and Material Review Ticket (MRT) system to the
Vantage menu. These are linked to Vantage and pull data from it but are
kept in their own separate database and do not write to the Vantage
database. They are written in Progress just like Vantage.

Dave Cole
Reeder & Kline


-----Original Message-----
From: Ordway, Bruce [mailto:bruceo@...]
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:24 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Who have brought the Vantage source code from
epico r?



>if you want a custom change you have to get it from Epicor<
This is kind of an interesting question to me.
We are currently moving from Dataflo to Vantage.

One of our problems with Dataflo was that we had done so much
customization over the years. We were remaining on a nine year old
release because of the trouble involved with upgrading a heavily
customized installation.
We figured that a new implementation of Vantage wouldn't be too hard
when compared to upgrading our Dataflo.

Needless to say, I'm against source code modifications.
I'm really hoping that the only modifications we'll need to make will
concern forms and reports. I really don't even consider these types of
changes as customizations.

Now I wonder what my fellow Vantage users have done with their software.
Can you tell me if you've customized? And why?

Thanks,
Bruce Ordway


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I think they put the patch out there for people who already have the code
and are sort of grandfathered to the new policy. I would ask your CAM.
They may have changed their mind again or the CAM who told me (one of
several different over the past few years) didn't know what he was talking
about.

Matt


-----Original Message-----
From: anonvan [mailto:anonvan@...]
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:39 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Who have brought the Vantage source code from epico
r?

is that mean the source is very expensive?
or epicor won't sell their source code?

because I have seen the source code for patch is available for
download in the Vantage download area.
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Which brings up a point for anyone who is thinking about buying Vantage ...

Don't buy the package unless they give or sell you the source code up front
with the package. I would also pressure any vendor to toss in the source
code as part of the base price or to add it for a very nominal fee.

We didn't buy source with Vantage and I smack the side of my head every so
often for not buying it.

Honestly, at this point, I would refuse to buy any package that I couldn't
get source code for.

Having dropped maintenance on Vantage if I had the source code I could at
least tweak it a bit.

Todd Anderson

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From: Todd Caughey [mailto:caugheyt@...]
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:02 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Who have brought the Vantage source code from
epico r?


Both - back when they did allow it to be purchased it was (in my opinion)
pretty expensive. I checked on this a couple years ago and was told source
code could no longer be purchased. I believe people who had purchased it
way back when it was OK have the right (in theer maintenance agreements) to
use current source code to update customizations they have done but now if
you want a custom change you have to get it from Epicor.
-Todd C.

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From: anonvan [mailto:anonvan@...]
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:39 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Who have brought the Vantage source code from epico
r?


is that mean the source is very expensive?
or epicor won't sell their source code?

because I have seen the source code for patch is available for
download in the Vantage download area.

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, Matt Finn <matt@s...> wrote:
> I was told you could no longer buy it.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: anonvan [mailto:anonvan@y...]
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 6:35 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] Who have brought the Vantage source code from
epicor?
>
> How much for that?
> Is that useful?



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