Not too often these days that a user migrates from one proprietary system to another, but Hewlett-Packard Co and Smith-Gardner & Associates Inc of Boca Raton, Florida, report that The Company Store, owned by Hanover Direct and based in La Crosse, Wisconsin has replaced its its in-house-developed order-fulfillment system, which runs on an IBM Corp 3090 mainframe, with the Mail Order & Cataloging System II software from Smith-Gardner, which is running on a high-end Precision Architecture RISC-based HP 3000 Corporate Business System; a similar hardware-software combination has bounced a Digital Equipment Corp VAX at Quantum Corp’s La Cie Ltd, a Beaverton, Oregon direct marketer of Macintosh peripherals.
