Last week I spend an evening just taking about things with my Dad and my Brother. Something that does not happen very often so I looked forward to it and enjoyed very much. We all have a lot of personality characteristics in common so most stories sound like it could happen to all of us. My Dad told us a story how he managed to enroll himself into an exam via Internet. He had to fill out an online form to enroll. And he did, but never got a confirmation. So he called the company and explained what happened. The entry never made it into the system to the company told him to try again, which…

I have not blogged that much lately, nor have I been active on Mibuso or done much for the DDC. Reason for this is a question that came end of November. I was called by someone who used to work for one of my customers. He had bought a company. This company was using several AS400 systems and even after a few weeks he realised that some of these systems was a bottleneck in the company. So he asked me, can we replace that with Navision. I said sure and we scheduled a visit. I looked at their processes and told him we needed at least three months to implement. Go live 1st of March. Answer…

Eric already mentioned it in his blog, the impression that R2 has performance improvements. Well, I can second that, BIG TIME. I am using NAV2009 ever since the early alpha releases and always found the user interface "fluffy". Usable, but sometimes anoyingly fluffy. One of my customers has a 20GB database with the RTC and is only using custom build pages. They were telling me that if the system was very busy NAV was slow. Profiler did not show any slow queries (hey I still know by basis SQL skills). Last sunday, encouraged by a phonecall with Waldo, I decided to upgrade my home server…