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		<title>Even If You Can&#8217;t Reproduce It, It&#8217;s Still a Bug</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/09/09/even-if-you-cant-reproduce-it-its-still-a-bug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one of my pet peeves. &#34;We can&#8217;t enter it as a problem unless we can reproduce it.&#34;
 Several months ago, a client recently asked me to research a journal entry that mysteriously appeared in their General Ledger.&#160;&#160; As part of my diagnosis, I determined a likely scenario: when an AR190 job goes into &#34;needs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=340&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caution: Rough Patches Ahead</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/08/31/caution-rough-patches-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently posted on a LawsonGuru.com forum:
   Has anyone encountered any problems when moving to ESP 7? 
    We are preparing to move to ESP 7 and are not aware of any problems, but if anyone has any bad experiences, please share. 
 
  This was immediately responded to by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=335&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All A-Twitter &#8216;Bout Nothin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/04/23/all-a-twitter-bout-nothin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems the whole universe is “tweeting” about something, and we, as a culture, just can’t get enough of it:

Some celebs have exceeded 1 MILLION followers, and that makes the “news”.  Gee, pardon my lack of excitement.
Senators and Congress{men&#124;women} tweeting during Obama’s address to Congress.  Have they forgotten about decorum and manners?


Sure, I understand the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=260&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does CRM Invade Our Privacy?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/04/11/does-crm-invade-our-privacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once a year, it happens.  My birthday, that is.  I won’t yammer on and on about birthdays, and how when you get to be “over-the-hill”, you don’t want to think about birthdays.  No, I’m perfectly fine with my age (hey, I earned my grey hair!).
See, every year I get cards and emails from people I’ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=258&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pondering an Age Old Question</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2008/07/19/pondering-an-age-old-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it goes something like this: &#8220;&#8217;tis  better to have loved and lost, or to never have loved at all?&#8221;
To put a twist on it a bit, is it better to have competed and lost, or never to have competed?  That is the question.

You see, I have a running banter with Eric Tu. You&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=119&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, so now you&#8217;re an expert, huh?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2008/06/23/oh-so-now-youre-an-expert-huh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t you just envision this as being a perfect line of Alice Kramden dialogue from an episode of The Honeymooners?   Ralph is contriving some plan with Norton, purporting to be &#8220;the expert&#8221; on whatever scheme is being cooked up.  And in steps clear-headed Alice, to utter the deflating question that brings it all back into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=111&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lawson&#8217;s Install Amnesia</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2008/05/29/lawsons-install-amnesia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 13:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone else think that when you install a Lawson application, install locations should be remembered for future installs? 

In other words, why do you have to enter these paths every single time you install a Lawson product?

And while we&#8217;re on the topic, why can&#8217;t Lawson figure out which version is running of Lawson&#8217;s own server [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=103&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wonders Never Cease</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2008/05/22/wonders-never-cease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 13:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As they say, &#8220;wonders never cease&#8221;, or something like that.

In last month&#8217;s LawsonGuru Letter I asked for your feedback on how well you think Lawson Support is working for you.  And, just as I&#8217;m compiling your comments, I need to check something on support.lawson.com for a client, and this is my greeting:

Clearly Lawson is experiencing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=98&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Minding the Store?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2008/04/29/whos-minding-the-store/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know.  I pick on Lawson Support too much.  
But man, what an easy target:

I mean, c&#8217;mon.  Here&#8217;s a company that constantly touts itself as a &#8220;player&#8221; in ERP space.  Yet they can&#8217;t even keep their support infrastructure up-and-running. 
It&#8217;s pretty common for even the small guys to at least have 24/7 monitoring, RAID [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=93&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Lawson Enterprise-Ready?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2008/02/14/is-lawson-enterprise-ready/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a topic which always generates a lot of debate. On the one hand, you have Lawson, which touts its “enterprise-readiness”, and its ability to support large enterprises.   Most of us think of Lawson as a software vendor targeting small-to-medium companies, but ask any Lawson executive or salesperson, and they will tell you, “oh, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=78&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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