Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Accounting Vendors Block Linux Server Use
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> | We all know Microsoft views Linux as a serious threat and will do just
> | about anything to discourage its use. But why would application vendors
> | who actually face competition from Microsoft help it out in this
> | regard? That's what one reader was wondering after discovering that
> | his customers could no longer use a Linux server with their favorite
> | accounting packages.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | The reader believes that Microsoft is behind this. "I think this is a
> | calculated move by Microsoft to stop Linux's increasing market share
> | in the server market, and help increase their own," the reader wrote.
> | "I think the developers are enabling this behavior, and in fact may
> | be called co-conspirators in assisting Microsoft in their attacks
> | against non-Windows server systems. I find this outrageous behavior
> | by the developers and have already informed them of my and my
> | clients' displeasure in forcing them to make outlays for something
> | they didn't need, for server software they didn't want, and for
> | the additional outlays that lay for my clients in the future.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | 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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> http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2007/01
accounting_vend.html
I thought Sage was in the process of losing market share
due to Linux and plan to move to Linux to survive.
Pity if they don't - there are plenty of accouting
packages out there to service the accounting market.
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