That's true. There are a number of quality NZ based accounting packages of which ours is one www.chreos.com, although we are a just a bit more powerful than MYOB.
Rob Martin Software Engineer phone 03 377 0495 fax 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neven MacEwan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:38 AM Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: MYOB and Delphi can hitch up? Alas No! > Paul > > This only realy confirm what POS MYOB is and > not deserving of being intrated to > > There are much better alternatives > > N > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul A Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:38 PM > Subject: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: MYOB and Delphi can hitch up? Alas No! > > > Dear anyone thinking about MYOB and Delphi hitching up somehow, > > A while ago I wrote to this user group that there was a publication called > MYOB in the $14.95 NEXT Handbook series that seemed to answer all of my > questions about Myob and Delphi connectivity. (If you're into it, you might > recall that the purchasible ODBC drivers operate in a read only manner for > MYOB data.) > > However then came an unexpected and forgotten return phone call form an > insider in the ginormous MYOB organisation. > > Apparently the NEXT Aussi publishers of the booklet were not supposed to > have released that booklet this side of the Tasman without the express > permission of a MYOB staff member here in New Zealand. > > MYOB is not intending to continue supporting some of the matters covered in > the booklet, and some things that developers may have strated getting used > to in Australia, for much longer. As we had not been introduced to a lot of > things happening in Aussi, MYOB did not intend to even expose the > information to us. Apparently some of the problem has to do with the old > architecture used in MYOB which possibly even predates the entry of Delphi > into the marketplace [you can work the rest out for yourself - leagcy > concepts]. > > The whole problem of the NEXT publication arrose because the Aussi liasion > man left MYOB at some point crucial to the kind of information that should > have been vetted before the publishers went to print, with a version for New > Zealand. Its even possible that there is only one version of the > publication - the Aussi one. > > The net result is that the only way to get stuff into the MYOB database from > Delphi, is to get the user to do a manual import of a Delphi file dump. > > I've not tried it yet. > > Other methods do not accurately feed back to the Delphi prog whether any > procedure has been sucecssful or not; and even checking for the existance of > a certain file that is created upon sucess (by MYOB) can be misleading and > give incomplete or inaccurate information, I was told. > > Real COM object etc .. or whatever .. is not envisaged for the next few > releases of MYOB, again due to the current historic forms used in the actual > database structure and MYOB programme access methods. 30 000 Aussi customers > are happy with things as they are and MYOB doesn't want to risk suddenly > making them unhappy juts to change things to make developers happier. The > risk are apparently too great for a sudden move. (I am only attempting to > relate what I was told by the very well placed individual.) > > Since that phone call nothing has loomed upon the horizon to encourage me > that another way will be found for the foreseeible future. So, if my client > wants to procede in going over to MYOB, I'll have to go the file dump and > manual import way to keep his address database, and MYOB client cards in > sync. > > Paul A Norman > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/
