FilePro running on Unix vs Windows

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004, Brian K. White wrote:
>
>
>>As Walter said, a CIO will take some other considerations to take into
>>account when selecting a technology platform for business, such as
>>availability of personnel skilled in the technology, training materials 
>>and
>>software availability.  We are currently in the process of replacing our 
>>SCO
>>UNIX/filePro system with a Windows Server2003 based ERP package.  I have
>>UNIX experience, so why go with a Windows server when the application we
>>chose does run on LINUX?  25 out of 35 off-the-shelf ERP packages that we
>>looked at ran only on Windows.  Additionally, of the packages that do run 
>>on
>>UNIX many of the 3rd party add-ons that we would be interested in only run
>>on Windows servers and we don't see the need/benefit of running multiple
>>server platforms.  All of the ERP apps that did run on UNIX also ran on
>>Windows and the majority of the customers using those apps were running 
>>them
>>on Windows servers.  And finally, there are far more training and 
>>consulting
>>resources available to us in the Windows environment.
>
>Meanwhile, every day John E. has an anecdote to relate almost every week 
>about various accountants and other buisiness associates who come into his 
>office for one reason or another and happen to see his software in 
>operation, and unanimously they ask "What is this? Where did you get it? 
>Who sells it? It works way better than anything we've ever seen before..." 
>And of course it's all stuff he wrote himself, in filepro, on unix.

IHMO, 99.99% of the commercial accounting software I've seen is junk,
apparently written by people who haven't a clue about accounting or how a
real business runs!

QuickBooks is a bad joke, yet try to find an accountant that can understand
a request for an import format that isn't QB.  I went round and round with
an accounting firm here trying to get the information necessary to transfer
data from our accounting system to theirs for them to do the writeup and
tax work.  They couldn't even understand that we're use accrual basis, not
cash, and I couldn't just send them my check register.

Bill
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