----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Rundlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Hewitt Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 7:05 PM Subject: Re: Why Intuit should have an Open Source version of QuickBooks...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/11/05/HNsmboffice_1.html > >> > >> > > > >So why should Intuit have an Open Source version of QuickBooks? > >Because Microsoft is doing it? > > The reason I said that is that historically Microsoft has introduced incompatibilities for third party software and making QuickBooks compatible with Open Source platforms would not only open up new markets but make them less dependent on Microsoft behaving themselves. > > > I think he meant that having a GPL'd version would allow the company to > develop the product feature-set better than the company could do on it's > own, giving pause to competitors who would need even larger resources to > compete. Still, the dual-license business model of a MySQL, AB may not > be appropriate for a tax and accounting packaged software vendor. I am > not familiar with Intuit's revenue model. > > -- Greg > _ I wasn't thinking so much that they would GPL their accounting product but rather that they would deploy it on a Linux network. QuickBooks is the 800 pound gorilla of the accounting world. Their installed base of business users is several million. Oddly QuickBooks will happily work with a Linux fileserver running Samba but Intuit won't support users in that configuration. I can understand them not wanting to support Linux proper but it puzzles me why they don't add Linux fileservers as a supported configuration. They currently require some kind of Windows server, either peer to peer or domain server for their network. -Alex _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
