All of us know that Microsoft
bought former Great Plains
Software and formed Microsoft
(Great Plains) Business Solutions
in the earlier 21st century.
It was total success for GPS,
we guess, but for Great Plains
Dynamics / eEnterprise / Dynamics
C/S+ clients it was the time
of change. First of all –
Great Plains Software, as
being independent corporation
in 1990th had to stake on
certain future predictions.
They decided that future should
be based on these two basic
principles:
• Database Independence.
Nobody could predict if Microsoft,
Ingress, Oracle, IBM DB2,
Btrieve, Ctree/Faircom or
somebody else from newcomers
will win the market. In such
a situation, if you are growing
ERP publisher – you
need to be flexible and have
the ability to switch quickly
from one DB platform to another
• Universal Graphical
interface. Some illusions
were related to 1972 invented
C language – now it
is clear that each computer
manufacturer tries to stick
standards to its own platform
and universal graphics is
somewhat no-one uses because
of the slow performance. But
it is seen now – not
in 1990th These two above
principles resulted in creation
of Great Plains Software development
environment and language –
Great Plains Dexterity. This
is history.
Now let’s go to nowadays
realities. We see large number
of so-called orphan clients
(who lapsed to pay annual
enhancement/maintenance fee
to Microsoft Business Solutions)
and still sits on two legacy
platforms (not supported anymore):
Pervasive SQL 2000 and Ctree
(we are not talking here about
Great Plains Accounting –
this ERP was phased out in
2001). We see common frustration,
when something happens with
performance, for example –
these clients are trying to
appeal to regular MBS VAR/Partner
and figure out that the partner
doesn’t have expertise
to support this phased out
platform. We’ll give
you some hints, before you
call the specialist:
• Pervasive SQL had
multiple service packs and
you probably have multiple
CDs of various Pervasive versions
in your library. Use the latest
one to reload Pervasive for
your workstations
• Pervasive SQL 2000
original (1999) should not
be installed at all –
it will not work if any service
pack was applied from the
server side
• Typical workstations
slowdown issue is resolved
by removing (on the workstations)
these files: wbtrv32.dll,
w32bticm.dll, and wbtr32.dll
• Expect old hardware
and disk space issues –
these could be monitored by
IT department
Good luck with support and
if you have issues or concerns
– we are here to help!
If you want us to do the job
- give us a call 1-630-961-5918
or 1-866-528-0577! help@albaspectrum.com
Andrew is a Great Plains
specialist in Alba Spectrum
Technologies ( http://www.albaspectrum.com
) – USA nationwide Great
Plains, Microsoft CRM customization
company, serving clients in
Chicago, Houston, Atlanta,
Phoenix, New York, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, San Diego,
Miami, New Orleans, Toronto,
Montreal and having locations
in multiple states and internationally
