On Thursday, Apr 3, 2003, at 16:07 Africa/Addis_Ababa, Patrick Okui wrote:
On Thursday 03 April 2003 06:27, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote: <snip>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
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