And lo on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:28:11 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

> scott wrote:
<snip>
> On 24 hours' notice, we found out that some guys were coming over from  
> the USA. (Nice of you to give us some notice... We only found out when  
> somebody asked "you have got accomodation for next week, right?" "Uh,  
> next week??") They spent 5 days importing all the data from Sage into  
> Axapta. Then they said "there you go, here's your new software", and  
> left. That was "it". Initially, our accounts guys didn't even have  
> passwords to get into the system.

Going to be so fun come audit time.

>>  I can assure you that MS Axapta can handle UK and EU VAT
>> perfectly well, as well as printing VAT numbers on invoices and far  
>> more complex things.  If you sent them on a training course then they  
>> could just ask how to do this and they would be shown...
>
> The last thing I heard on the matter was this:
>
> "There's a UK add-on module that gives you support for VAT and a couple  
> of other things. We won't be purchasing it. It's just too expensive."
>
> In other words, "this is only a problem for the UK so we don't really  
> care about it". Almost all problems that only affect the UK  
> automatically get an extremely low priority.

So what's the bet that despite this someone's actually bought the UK  
localisation pack and just hasn't installed it as it's 'not necessary'?


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Phil Cook

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