I should have kept my trap shut. Most of the references I've seen look like global scope fuzzy decision making tools without the decision part. Looks like these may serve best for IT marketing types to gather clues from customers and then give customers mumbo-jumbo as they let their techies define the tasks, dependencies, data flows, control flows, ..., schedules, etc. The descriptions I saw from posted references don't imply any technical enlightenment for the software buyers but do imply more software provider business. I'd be interested in ERP fuzzy decision thingies (ie, real system engineering tools), but not the ERPie gui BS thingies :-) Chuck > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Chuck Cole > > 9 chances in 10 these are Mickeysoft applications much like a > spreadsheet > template with a little Baysean decision making trim to smooth > the results. > Doing something in Linux should be easy, but probably fits > that "oh yeah, we > do that too" category. > > Harris Corp used some elegant general-purpose decision making > tools that > were unix-based and had macro features to easily develop > application-specific scenarios for the brain-dead in admin > departments. > This is not likely to be very useful for "intelligent" > corporations, but it > may serve as a good sanity check even for them. > > I'll be curious to see what some product descriptions have to > say about ERP > planning SW.. going to look. Where are your articles? > > Chuck > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Bob Tanner > > > > Can someone tell me what enterprise resource planning (ERP) > > software does? > > >