>> Krishnakant Mane and his team have successfully made a tally alternative >> called GNU Khata. They have docs on how to migrate Tally data into GK. They >> even do it at your place for a fee. The only roadblock I see is the CAs' >> refusal to work on non Tally software as they get heavy discounts and >> promotion from the company. >> > > That is not the real problem. The real problem is the old standards issue. > Peutronics <whatever they are called now> keep changing their data formats. > It is not only a CA or one client who has to switch. It is all clients of a > CA firm and other collaborating CA firms who have to switch. Else one will > require a continuos ongoing seamless means of data export to / from GNU > Khata to Tally. > > There is also the never ending issue of keeping up with the utterly daft > ROC, ST, Excise, VAT departments' idiotic implementations of security > certificates for esigning. Most of the above services do not function > behind a proxy / firwall and require disabling to ZERO all security to get > them working. Add to the mix M$ document formats, forms embedded in PDF, > etc etc and one faces a herculean task in switching a CA's office to a > GNU/Linux environment.
Plug: Hundreds of companies in India are already using ERPNext successfully. Lots of them without any external "support" from 3rd parties. FYI: Its also "Free Software". -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
