Labor Day Ramblings

[Walter Vaughan]

Chad McWilliams wrote:

> Not sure if I'm remembering correctly, but I thought Microsoft had bought
> MAS 90.  Is this just a rebadged copy of that or something entirely new?

SAGE software completed the purchase of Best Software which supplied MAS90 a 
while back and this summer completed the rebranding of their products from best 
to sage.

While they (M$) has bought several accounting firms, from what I have gleaned 
the MS_SBA2006 is in essence a clean sheet approach fully written with dot.net 
tools that is a basically a Quick Books clone/killer.

The reason I think this will not end up being a "Microsoft Bob" is that you will 
have your pick of any of the dot.net languages to write in (Cobol/VB.net/C#/...) 
and you interact at a very high level, so that when SBA2008 comes out, it should 
not make a hill of beans difference. You don't communicate at the file level, 
but rather at an API level. Unless you have the unlucky event of using a 
deprecated method/function developers "should" be fine.

Of course SBA2006 is not recommended for more than 25 users, so its not 
scalable, but from a really small business perspective it'll be really 
attractive from my crystal ball.

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Walter