Dateline Woodstock:
A few weeks ago, we wrote to you about Jacob Hammond and his brother Jeb who have been discussing ways to reduce the cost of air travel. It may interest you to knwow that the Hammond boys have decided to join forces and start their own airline. Their inspiration came from a television show on The Discovery Channel describing the vast supply of military aircraft languishing in the desert just outside Phoenix, Arizona. According to the plan, JJ Air (as they plan to call their new venture) will employ a fleet of planes utilizing state-of-the-art US Defense Department technology, thus rendering them -- and this is a critical element to the plan -- invisible to radar. Jake and Jeb figure a stealth airline can perform in ways not even industry-leader Southwest can match. Speaking from a upturned apple crate at Woodstock's Squat and Gobble (our local eatery) Jeb explained that the big problem with commercial aviation today is that conventional planes! can be detected by Air Traffic Control, which if you have watched CBS Sixty Minutes you know is run by severely overstressed people sitting in gloomy rooms drinking coffee from styrofoam cups and staring at little radar dots. Natuiraly, air traffic controllers get grumpy, which is why they routinely order the daily Burlington VT to Boston MA flight to circle Mexico City just out of spite. They won't be able to do that stuff with JJ Air. They won't even be aware that a JJ Air flight is in the vicinity until one comes screaming past the control tower at Mach 2, requesting an emergency landing. Jake and Jeb plan to remove the restrooms from each plane to make room for an expanded wet-bar, so they figure that over 93% of all JJ Air flights will require an emergency landing. According to their initial press release, the details of the new air service will be revealed on CNN's Larry King Live show, or in case of a scheduling conflict with the Democratic National Convention, Wood! stock Community Cablevision. If you can't catch WCC on your cable TV s ystem, let us know and we'll report the results to you in a future issue.

See the MISys Guys at any of these trade shows and exhibits. The MISys Guys are off to the trade shows the next three months. To start you can visit us now at TPAC at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver this week. September 9-12 we will be exhibiting at the QuickBooks Enterprise Users Conference in Dallas at the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion. On October 16-18 you will find us back in Vancouver for the Simply Partner Conference at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver. Finally on November 10-13 we will be exhnibiting at the Sleeter Group's 2008 Accounting Software Consulting Conference at the Renaissance Hotel and Spa in Glendale, Arizona. So come by and see us and all the features of MISys Small Business Manufacturing or MISys SAE for Sage/Accpac accounting. If you can't wait browse back to our web page for free demos, trial copies or product literature. See you on the road!

Accountant's Guide Now Available. Confused by the terminology and unfamiliar topics manufacturers use? A new Accountant's Guide To Choosing The Right Manufacturing Software is available that sheds light on many previously obscure topics. This 75-page reference guide is available free of charge to practicing accountants and consultants who visit the MISys web site at www.misysinc.com/cpaguide.

MISys To Exhibit At TPAC 2008. Next month's TPAC 2008 conference in Vancouver BC will host all the major 3rd-party developers for Sage Accpac ERP. Among them will be MISys, showing the newest version of MISys SBM product which integrates seamlessly with Sage Accpac ERP and Sage Simply Accounting. If you are planning to attend this year's TPAC, make sure you stop by the MISys booth to learn all about the future of MISys Small Business Manufacturing.

New Training Workshops Scheduled. A new series of online training workshops on MISys Small Business Manufacturing has been scheduled at MISys University. These workshops are open to current users of MISys SBM and those who are just considering the purchase of the software (we often have prospects who sit in on training as a means to completing their due diligence). All you need is a major credit card to register online.
Discounted tuition rates are available to current MISys Business Partners. For more information, or to register as a Business Partner, please contact Scott Beavers, MISys Channel Manager, at 802/457-4600 x286.

MISys SBM Reviews Urgently Needed. Now that MISys Small Business Manufacturing has become one of the preferred 3rd-party solutions for QuickBooks, we urgently need experienced users to write a brief review suitable for posting on the QuickBooks web site. This is neither the route to fame nor fortune, but by doing so you will win the enduring appreciation of everyone here at MISys World Headquarters who works so hard to make the software as powerful and reliable as can be. If you've got 50 kind and insightful words about our product to share, please click here.

Dateline Woodstock:
Here in Vermont, you can't turn on the radio or television without hearing about spiraling fuel costs and the affect they are having on everyday life. It's probably not that much different where you live. Vermonters have a long history of living with a light footprint and turning to their own devices when other resources come into short supply. After all, every October for the past several millennia, the ground in Woodstock freezes solid, everything growing suddenly stops, and our world goes into a mild state of hibernation. So we're quite used to spending at least part of our lives in energy conservation mode. A surprising number of Vermonters are actively pursuing ways to reduce their carbon footprint, whether for themselves, or for society at large. Around town, woodpiles are growing daily. According to the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, our state leads the nation for the most number of hybrid vehicles per capita. At a local country fair last weekend, the space allocated to "Hybrids Park Here" was almost as large as "Everyone Else Park Here." From their offices at the Woodstock Squat and Gobble (our local diner), Jacob Hammond and his brother Jeb have been discussing ways to reduce the cost of air travel. Jacob says he's been in touch with some "major airlines" about his plan to have every airliner fly 10,000 feet higher. Besides reducing wind resistance at that altitude, Jacob figures that the average plane will save 18% on fuel consumption by simply gliding the last hour of every flight. Jeb disagrees. According to his detailed calculations, flying at 40,000 feet is equivalent to hugging the outside of every curve at the NASCAR finals, and Jake's idea will have planes actually flying a longer distance of 28%. So Jeb favors a flight path that stays as close to the ground as possible, thus reducing the actual distance traveled. He figures this could be about 6 feet in places like Kansas and Oklahoma, but agrees that a "safe height" would be considerably greater in places like Vermont, Montana, and Wyoming. We're not sure that either Jacob or Jeb have found the secret to reducing aviation fuel consumption. You will have to agree that, as fuel costs increase, there is a remarkable (and gratifying) interest in developing alternative ways of getting by -- just like Vermonters do every October.