Rich, Being a beancounter myself I am ashamed to admit most bookkeepers are rather conservative. And that is putting it mildly. I think I am one of the very few bookkeepers in Holland running SQL-Ledger. At least I would not know of any others, I do know some people who are using it here. Most of them because I advised them to use it. SQL-Ledger (or 123-Ledger) has anything any small or medium enterprise might ever need in my opinion.
Most bookkeepers would rather stop accounting alltogether than switch to linux. Indeed, it does not make any difference where the accounting package itself is running. It may be anywhere the IT guys like, on a IBM server or a Linux server for that matter,. A long as it has a Windows frontend, all is well. Look at the troubles XBRL has taking off, although it makes perfect good sense. Just too weird for the middle aged bookkeepers to even consider. No way, not in the M$ manual? Forget it!! Kids at school are trained to use windows. When I installed Linux on my daughters PC, she wanted to know what went wrong with WIndows that made t look so strange, and where outlook was? Where was the virus scanner anyway? I suppose in 20 years we all laugh at this and wonder how the hell M$ got to keep selling OS software while the free stuff was free and just as good or better. BTW, any luck using SQL-Ledger on Android yet? M$ seems to be loosing out on the mobile market first. One down, rest to follow ;-) Greetings from Holland, Paul 2010/5/28 Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > On Fri, 28 May 2010, Jean Pierre Guillou wrote: > > This is still true as regards M*Soft - If it's M*Soft based and does not >> work, must be some-one else's fault - If the IT Guys install Linux + ?? >> and it does not work, must be their fault. >> >> For many businesses, Linux is still experimental and as no one company >> sells >> it (but many) it cannot be right. >> > > Jean-Pierre, > > That's not the issue. SL/L123 can be hosted externally and accessed by > users with Windoze on their desktops via a Web browser. No one cares what > the underlying OS or tools are. > > The issue is whether there are industries and businesses whose normal > operations are not (not well, not fully) supported by the available > shrink-wrapped accounting packages that run on Windows. I'm not referring > to > Great Plains, Peachtree, or the other $$$, multi-module, enterprise-level > applications but the ones available to the small and medium size business > who hires an external bookkeeper and accountant. > > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > SQL-Ledger mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ledger123.com/mailman/listinfo/sql-ledger >
_______________________________________________ SQL-Ledger mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ledger123.com/mailman/listinfo/sql-ledger
