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Hotel PMS & operation. We pay roughly $7000 per year. If I want api access it cost additional $700 per year. It took them 9 months to transfer the licence when

Hotel PMS & operation. We pay roughly $7000 per year. If I want api access it cost additional $700 per year. It took them 9 months to transfer the licence when I bought the property.

ta999999171 7y ago
Do you have an email address I can get in touch with you on?
mxuribe 7y ago
I'm curious, what is "PMS" in this context? Would you kindly explain a tiny bit more?
nwmcsween 7y ago
Many ERP systems do this and are open source, look at odoo for example
eb0la 7y ago
I worked for a company that developed mobile apps for big companies. One of those apps was for a Hotel chain, and the developers complained that the PMS API was _horrible_. In order to make the app usable, the company had to develop a backend to cache everything the PMS returned (mostly was static content).
bsder 7y ago
> We pay roughly $7000 per year. Erm, nobody is going to jump up and down to replace that software if that's all you have to pay. You can't get people to work on replacing Cadence, and that's a license that is on the order of $1 million per person per year.
- dualogy 7y ago
  I see some ~100 products at https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/tools-a-z.html https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/tools-a-z.html -- which one(s) did you have in mind?
  - bsder 7y ago
    Virtuoso is the VLSI layout editor/schematic toolset that is egregiously expensive. However, I believe that Allegro (the PCB suite) is above $100K per person per year. A good example at the price range cited is ballroom dance competition software. Dick Douglas created it a number of years ago and people gripe what it costs (I think $1000 per comp or so) and the fact that it hasn't been actively developed over the years. It would be very useful as open source software--except that nobody seems to have the knowledge of what is needed (Dick and his wife Liz have high domain knowledge of ballroom scoring and competitions) and nobody is willing to take on the training/customer support task. This is, in my opinion, where software, in general, breaks down. Everybody wants to be the developer of scalable software that doesn't scale support costs--unfortunately, that's the exception, not the rule. (Link to the ballroom software: https://www.douglassassociates.com/ https://www.douglassassociates.com/)

Hotel PMS & operation. We pay roughly $7000 per year. If I want api access it cost additional $700 per year. It took them 9 months to transfer the licence when I bought the property.

ta999999171 7y ago

Do you have an email address I can get in touch with you on?

mxuribe 7y ago

I'm curious, what is "PMS" in this context? Would you kindly explain a tiny bit more?

nwmcsween 7y ago

Many ERP systems do this and are open source, look at odoo for example

eb0la 7y ago

I worked for a company that developed mobile apps for big companies. One of those apps was for a Hotel chain, and the developers complained that the PMS API was _horrible_. In order to make the app usable, the company had to develop a backend to cache everything the PMS returned (mostly was static content).

bsder 7y ago

> We pay roughly $7000 per year. Erm, nobody is going to jump up and down to replace that software if that's all you have to pay. You can't get people to work on replacing Cadence, and that's a license that is on the order of $1 million per person per year.

dualogy 7y ago
I see some ~100 products at https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/tools-a-z.html https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/tools-a-z.html -- which one(s) did you have in mind?
- bsder 7y ago
  Virtuoso is the VLSI layout editor/schematic toolset that is egregiously expensive. However, I believe that Allegro (the PCB suite) is above $100K per person per year. A good example at the price range cited is ballroom dance competition software. Dick Douglas created it a number of years ago and people gripe what it costs (I think $1000 per comp or so) and the fact that it hasn't been actively developed over the years. It would be very useful as open source software--except that nobody seems to have the knowledge of what is needed (Dick and his wife Liz have high domain knowledge of ballroom scoring and competitions) and nobody is willing to take on the training/customer support task. This is, in my opinion, where software, in general, breaks down. Everybody wants to be the developer of scalable software that doesn't scale support costs--unfortunately, that's the exception, not the rule. (Link to the ballroom software: https://www.douglassassociates.com/ https://www.douglassassociates.com/)