On Saturday 27 November 2004 21:17, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Sat November 27 2004 5:43 pm, Terence McCarthy wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:23:18 -0500
"Fred A. Miller"
wrote: I hope so, as I keep at them as well, and ALL of us SHOULD, IMHO.....FREQUENTLY!! I was told by one of the coders there a couple of years ago, that there IS heavy pressure from MickySoft to NOT port to Linux. I've never given his name as I promised not to, but I certainly can and DO believe that he was telling the truth, as we KNOW this has happened for sometime elsewhere.
Surely all we need to do is inform them that if they allow another company- or dare one say it, an OSS product- to fill the obvious market need in the short term, they may never get the same chance or the same market share again.
I've been telling them that for quite awhile. Of course, no one has produced a QuickBooks "clone" so they aren't believers. MickySoft keeps the pressure on, and because there's no competition, they hold off.
Fred
-- "As Internet technology itself vaults into new areas, so too does the Microsoft monopoly and its tried-and-true bag of tricks." -US Senator Orrin Hatch, (R) Utah
Actually, Appgen has been developing MyBooks for some time now. I've always wondered why more doesn't get said about it. It's pretty price now, though. They did have a small business edition for @ $100 way back when. Didn't see any such animal for sale this time around. Still, some of the business types around here might have an interest. http://www.appgen.com/ DCP -- DC Parris GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere!"