The future of RMS

Jan 23, 2009 5 Replies

Does anyone have any idea what Microsoft plans on doing with RMS? Is it a product that the company will possibly hold onto, are they getting ready to drop it all together? The reason I am asking is because they have talked about upgrades for so long, and nothing...it's been something like 4 years if I'm not mistaken...anyone know what is going on?


I am not sure if this is on CustomerSource but I do know it is posted on PartnerSource. So if you do not have access, please contact your reseller and ask them for a copy. Here is the link.

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Dane

I am also waiting desparately for any information about V.3. The sad part is that as end-customers with valid maintenance we don't even have access to what's in the pipeline. We waited long enough for a better version of RMS, with more support for newer pin-pads, and more functionality of the software. But again, after years of waiting, we still just do that: wait.

I see my maintenance $ wasted, not getting anything for it. I seem my time wasted with the conference calls, upgrade announcements, timelines for future upgrades, just to find yet again, those are totally meaningless.

And to speculate on the OP question if this is a dead product, well, it sure looks like it. For the money we spent for the license, for the money we spend on maintenance all we got is a sub-standard appliction with just the most basic features and in V.2 most of the bugs that I already reported in

1.2 and 1.3.

Preaching to the choir over here. I tried to email you something but got it back.

Hi, Partners who have access to more information are bounded with agreement(s) and it is not public. Some information you can find from transcripts of open forums and live chats (seach this newsgroup). In addition to the PartnerSource link that Dane gave, a link to the CustomerSource Statement of Direction (From December 2008 Open Forum Chat):

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general the public informetion about the future of RMS can be found in November 2008 Open Forum Chat:"Microsoft Dynamics POS 2009 is expected to release to manufacturing in March 2009. The product is currently in a private Beta. This release has many of the capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics RMS Store Operations as well as some features that are not in Store Operations today. In addition, we plan to ship a migration tool that will allow Store Operations users to migrate to POS 2009. At this time, this is the only publicly available information about this release." Regards, Koit Lahesoo

If you don't mind, please use this e-mail address

gerd at hinastea dot com

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