On Thursday 03 April 2003 06:27, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:
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> The problem with linux is going to come with the accounting and
> financial packages that are used alot around Kampla like pastel,
> solomon, navision, etc.

you can say that again... - and add Quickbooks aka quicken to the list... as 
well as stuff like Macromedia products... <sigh> speaking of which, does 
someone know of an app that will build flash files in the unix environment 
much like swish etc.

>
> Otherwise in most environments if just Office products adn Internet
> access apps (mail, web etc) and someitmes connecting to back-end
> databases which can be done by a linux desktop as efficiently.
>
> my two cents
>
> Kiggs
>
> On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:00, Paul Bagyenda wrote:
> > Ellison-speak! But seriously, do wananchi on the list believe Linux on
> > the desktop has a chance in 10?
> >
> >
> > P.
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, Apr 3, 2003, at 08:32 Africa/Addis_Ababa, Kiggundu Mukasa
> > wrote:
> >
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> > <underline><color><param>0000,6666,0000</param>http://www.infoworld.com/a
> >rticle/03/04/01/HNlinuxdata_1.html
> >
> >
> >
> > </color></underline></excerpt><<image.tiff>
> >
> > <excerpt>
> >
> > </excerpt>

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