>>I think this will probably effect alot of us in the long run. I was wondering what others thought about this.
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>>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0%2C4586%2C2667396%2C00.html
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>Rip,
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>Wow..
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>Great Plains is a huge VB & SQL user.

But more importantly how about all the people out there like me who work for HR application providers? What happens to the folks on this forum that work for Abra or PeopleClick (Della Martin) when those companies cannot compete with MS for HR sales?

Let's imagine for a minute that you own a fairly new company, less than 5 years old, and now you have between 50 - 100 employees. It's time for you to start thinking switching from that excell spreadsheet to a full blown HRIS solution. Do you go with Abra,Peopleclick,PeoeplTrack,!Trak-IT (just to name a few), or do you go with MS. Let's see, I think I'll take..... MS!!!!

IMO, there should be alot of scared companies out there today.