"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Accounting Vendors Block Linux Server Use
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> | Is this one more Redmond conspiracy against Linux, or is something
> | else going on here? No doubt Microsoft is delighted with the way
> | this works out, but what I don't understand is why Intuit and Sage
> | would both go along with it. Why would two major application vendors,
> | who compete against each other and also face a threat from Microsoft
> | in that space, restrict their customers' choices to the benefit
> | of Redmond?
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I had commented previously about the excessive paranoia that seems to
pervade the community of OSS advocates regarding Microsoft. They see a
conspiracy in virtually every activity favorable to Microsoft products.
This instance is no exception. In spite of the mantra of the Unix followers
and their bretheren, Java is not as totally popular as they claim. Many
other companies are changing their new product releases to obtain the
benefits of .NET features. Of course the Mono environment would be equally
supportive as .NET if advanced SQL capabilities were available for simple
product inclusion as with SQL 2005 Express, rather than the restrictive
MySQL which does not allow commercial re-distribution without paying
appropriate fees. The individual user could install MySQL himself, but
Intuit cannot do it for him and so cannot control the server data
environment as needed.
So Intuit and, apparently from the blog, Sage are forced to limit their new
products to installations with compliant servers and that is only Microsoft
until the day that OSS can provide an equivalent solution.
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