FW: MYOB Accounting Package Registration
Come on gang... Surely there's someone else who uses MYOB... Let's make the market big enough to justify a Linux release... -----Original Message----- From: Jamie_Macintosh(a)myob.co.nz [mailto:Jamie_Macintosh(a)myob.co.nz] On Behalf Of sales(a)myob.co.nz Sent: Monday, 19 July 2004 15:26 To: Lindsay Druett Subject: Re: MYOB Accounting Package Registration Hi Lindsay As fare as I'm aware there are no plans to make the product work on a linux based system, Unfortunately there is just not a big enough market to justify a linux release. Thank you, Kind regards, MYOB Sales Advice Phone: 0800 60 69 62 Fax: 0800 94 96 96 Email: sales(a)myob.co.nz http://www.myob.co.nz Lindsay Druett <lindsay(a)wired.net.nz> 16/07/2004 09:36 p.m. To: sales(a)myob.co.nz cc: Subject: Re: MYOB Accounting Package Registration Another question... Is there any plans to develop MYOB so that it runs on a Linux platform (using X-Windows such as KDE, Gnome, etc) as well as Microsoft Windows ? sales(a)myob.co.nz wrote:
Dear Lindsay
Thanks for your email,
We are very sorry for the inconvenience and we are working on the website issues regarding registrations, I however will forward this on
to the appropriate persons.
Thank you for your insite,
Kind regards, MYOB Sales Advice Phone: 0800 60 69 62 Fax: 0800 94 96 96 Email: sales(a)myob.co.nz http://www.myob.co.nz
Does Linux have a larger desktop market share than MacOS X? Probably not in the Small Business sector. You can get MYOB for MacOS X. The problem Linux has in general is that because so much good software is free, very rarely does anyone need to buy anything. However accounting software is a good example of where the OSS community isn't very well served by commercial or free software. The only real decent options for Open Source Accounting packages are SQL Ledger (much better now than it every has been but still pretty rough UI wise) and GnuCash. GnuCash is fine for personal finance but seriously lacking in small business accounting features. There are some commercial Linux accounting packages. The one I liked best was Quasar by the guys at LinuxCanada.com. It's a client server system and has really good POS options. It is lacking in some areas when compared to good Windows SB Accounting apps but overall is still good. And there is the AppGen system. But it is very old school and not very nice to use. There is also an advanced ERP system written in Java that I momentarily forget the name of.... And one I just remembered, Fitrix, which I've never looked at. I personally use an old version of Quickbooks Pro with CrossOver office (WINE). It works perfectly. MYOB might work too. Accounting software must be a good market to be in. I know I dread the day that I have to convert from QB to something else. There is just so much data to convert and you would have to type it all in by hand as no Accounting Package can import data from another that I have seen. The downside is also that one solution does not fit all. Each country has different tax laws etc. Even from industry to industry there are many differences and things to consider. Hence why there is a good little local industry creating NZ and specific industry oriented accounting packages.
As fare as I'm aware there are no plans to make the product work on a linux based system, Unfortunately there is just not a big enough market to justify a linux release.
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Possibly here too one might consider the investment made my Apple in tools to help developers port windows code to Mac OSX and even classic mac for many years. Lets hope mono makes it easier for them to do the same in Linux eventually. Then it doesn't matter so much as there is very little extra cost in making your product work in that market too. Oliver Jones wrote:
Does Linux have a larger desktop market share than MacOS X? Probably not in the Small Business sector. You can get MYOB for MacOS X.
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