[NTLUG:Discuss] Looking for A Linux accounting book keeping suite.

[Daniel Hauck]

Simple:

Compatibility.  For example, if you were to work with a previous accounting
package and needed to remain with that while "dumping" Windows, Wine makes
it possible.  If the features you require only exist in a Windows package
(which is both likely and common at the moment) then Wine makes it possible
to run it without Windows.

We don't live in an ideal world and it's not always practical to be
'religious' about the software we run.  For many smaller and conventional
things, there simply isn't an alternative to Windows.  In the high-power
markets, that's not as true as it once was.  And I think the reason for this
is that when a company spends a lot of money for a solution, they don't care
what the solution runs on nearly as much since it's the solution they are
more interested in than the method.  So that's why we have a lot of Linux
internet servers and Linux rendering farms and such.

I think it's a waste of energy to be religious about computing solutions
though.  While I too hold a bias in favor of Linux solutions, other
solutions exist and should be entertained.  And the point of the question
that started this thread was keeping costs down.  With a conventional
Windows package, the cost is pretty low and without Windows licensing, it's
cheaper.

I did give a look at that accounting package written in Perl.  It's very
very interesting.  I wish I had that when I was in college.  It would have
proven to be an interesting experiement indeed.  But it's web-based which is
both a plus and a minus.  It's a plus for flexible client choices but a
minus since web interfaces can be rather limited in their usability at
times.  Nevertheless, it's a package worth investigating as is this other
Linux solution "myBooks" or whatever it was.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Edwards" <greg at nas-inet.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 21:57
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Looking for A Linux accounting book keeping
suite.


> If you already have a copy of Win9x you've already contributed to Bill's
> pocket.  If you don't already have Win9x then why buy an app that runs
> on Windows even if Wine will support it?
>
> Daniel Hauck wrote:
>
> > Running VMware means you're running Windows.
> >
> > Running Peachtree with Wine, to my understanding, remedies the problem
of
> > depending on MS Windows.  That was the point the user is trying to
escape
> > from... MS Windows licenses.  VMware wasn't intended to address that
> > concern.  Wine was.
> >
>
>
> --
> Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com>
>
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