How is the upgrade effort to PeopleSoft 8 going among users?
Way better than we’d hoped. We don’t have any users that have migrated to PeopleSoft 8 and said anything [other] than that it was a very direct migration and better than they expected it to be. By comparison to the competition and their very visible user horror stories, we feel pretty relieved. We have approximately 5,000 customers. We have shipped it to 2,000 customers that have requested it. There are 200 customers that have completed that migration and are live on all the modules they are licensed for. I think we’ll have 500 to 700 completely live by the end of the year. Q: What have you done to ease the migration? A: We’ve put a number of things in place to make it quick and easy to upgrade. We’ve got upgrade tools and scripts, and then there is a service package we’ve put together with our implementation group and our partners to package the services to upgrade a company. Most upgrades . . . are happening [within] anywhere from five to eight weeks. We have documented upgrades of a
