On Nov 4, 2007 10:51 AM, Robert Donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The difficulties I keep running into with Linux are related to application > functionaltiy. GNUCash, SQLedger, and Kompozer, for example, still > can't compete effectively with Quicken, Quickbooks, and Dreamweaver. > Since most non-computer people couldn't care less about whether > Linux is a better OS than Windows, if Linux can't do all the things > they are used to doing in Windows with very little transitional difficulty, > it doesn't matter how many other things it can do that Windows can't, > they will still tend to reject it.
I think trying to move them to a Linux desktop is the wrong move. If you want tomove them to the future then move them to a web service of some sort. Then provide access to that service with Linux. e.g. for Quicken or QuickBooks, http://www.cpaasp.com/html/accountingstation.htm You will encounter opposition to this approach as well, but I personally believe that you and your customer will be better served in the long run by going in this direction. IMHO classic desktops will _all_ be obsolete in a few years. Of course, many conservative business users will continue to use them despite that fact. Everybody's time, developer, reseller, supporter, customer, is better spent migrating this new world rather than replicating the old one. BobLQ "via gmail" -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
