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DATE | 2004-12-19 |
FROM | Contrarian
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SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Desktop FS System Software
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> > Office Software > Quickbooks: the missing link for small business Linux > Thursday December 16, 2004 (01:34 PM GMT) > By: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller > > Printer-friendly Email story > > Last week I was talking with a small business IT consultant who switches > clients' servers to Linux (and Samba) all day long without any problems, > but finds few clients interested in moving their desktops to Linux. The > reason? "QuickBooks," he said. While there are many small business > accounting packages that happily run on Linux, including GnuCash, > Quasar, SQL-Ledger, and AccPac, QuickBooks dominates this market. And
I'd have said Access (blech) What's SQL-Ledger?
> In other words, it's a training issue as much as anything else. The cost > of the software is negligible compared to the time and energy QuickBooks > users have invested in learning the program and its quirks.
Good post.
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