John Boyle wrote:
To Jim Allan, et al: How much research did you do and did you ask on
such forums as Linux Questions.Org? Did you ask any of the companies
that actually make the different distro's? As for any accounting
packages that work with Linux, I beg to differ with you as there ARE
some really good ones, if you only make an honest effort to find them!
We did some asking when we were considering changing. My contact was
someone who had worked as a consultant with some other companies who had
changed altogther or partially to Linux. He said, when I explained what
we were doing, that he shouldn’t guarantee we would be satisfied if we
made a complete change that that time. In short, he didn’t want our
business, unless we understood there were no guarantees. And we could
guarantee no problems if we didn’t make the change.
Also I’ve learned from experience not to believe anything said by
someone representing any company that is trying to sell you something.
They are as likely to be bullshitting as honest, or pushing some feature
they actually know little about. And they may believe they are being honest.
Accounting packages were a minor issue, which would have been solved if
the rest had been solvable. I never said there were no good Linux
accounting packages. Why thenn do you say that you disagree with me on
that issue?
> Why is it that many businesses use Linux or Unix on their servers, if
> there are no programs to use? :-(
I never said there were no programs to use for servers.
I will not continue a discussion that attributes to me opinions that I
have never expressed.
And this is not the forum for it in any case.
But should I take it that your opinion is that everyone, every airline,
every scientific institution, every computerized shoe factory should
immediately completely switch to Linux regardless of whether the
software they are now using has a counterpart on Linux? That seems to me
to be an absurd opinion.
Even OpenOffice refuses to support OpenType on Linux. That seems to me
absurd also. But it should make it clear that no operating system will
be perfect with every program.
Jim Allan
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