Selling Linux to Windows Users

[James Matthews]

It's not easy to do it. The best way would be 1. with web apps 2. to devote
loads of resources to WINE so things can get better. They are doing a great
job but can always use more incentive.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>wrote:

> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> > 2008/12/11 norman <norman at littletank.org>:
> >>From my experience the most useful and flexible financial software is
> >> that marketed by Sage. There are several versions suitable for
> >> business from small to large. I used to teach computerised accounting
> >> and Sage was the only software considered to be suitable for training
> >> and examination. I have written to them some 3 years ago when Ubuntu
> >> was getting going but received the standard reply that they had no
> >> plans to port their software to Linux.
>
> imo, there is no accounting software to beat SQL-Ledger...  The biggest
> problem with it is that it's all written in Perl :-(
>
> > Wow, their website is terrible. It assumes a specific browser width,
> > and a specific font setting as well. The Javascript is _slow_ and
> > worse yet, they are using Javascript to reimplement built in HTML form
> > features, such as dropdown lists.
>
> I haven't looked, but the usual reason to do that is that HTML forms do
> dropdown lists _very_ badly.
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> derek
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