I've got a client that uses MYOB Accountant's Office. It's a multi-user practice managment, time billing, invoicing type program.
They're looking at replacing their existing Novell server which is at the end of it's life. I had them sold on the idea of a Linux based server until we discovered this little gem from MYOB's support pages. ****************************************** Question Is Accountants Office supported on a Linux Server? Answer No, Linux is not a compatible Network Operating System for Accountants Office because of fundamental incompatibilies in file and record locking within Linux and is therefore not supported under any circumstances. Link: http://myobaustralia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/myobaustralia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=*kRtyb4g&p_lva=010130-000051&p_refno=010130-000051&p_created=980896579&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTImcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1saW51eCZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPTYmcF9wcm9kX2x2bDE9OSZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMj1_YW55fiZwX2NhdF9sdmwxPX5hbnl_JnBfc29ydF9ieT1kZmx0JnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li= ****************************************** Upon reading this I immediately thought "What the !?" Lets not worry about all those thousands of businesses sucessfully using Linux as a filesserver, this one program doesn't work with it and of course it's a Linux problem ? Wouldn't be sloppy coding of the program would it by any chance would it? Comments anyone ? -Vince -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
