Cobol - Re: OT (Maybe): ERPs

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Re: OT (Maybe): ERPs

Richard

2005-01-28, 3:55 am

> Lacking Wine or equivalent, you've locked your users into in-house
> developed software.

Oh yeah, I had forgotten that Linux needed to use WINE to run Windows
based Browsers, Word Processors, Spreadsheets, and even simple editors
because there are no programs at all that run on Unix/Linux. ... and
Bill Gates invented the Internet and MicroComputers.

> F.U.D.

Interestingly you claim this, but failed to notice your own FUDding.

> accounting software for French farms, via Italian encyclopedias,
> German tax software, child education software,

Those are _really_ good reasons for _me_ to keep Windows.

Now all you have to do is come up with a list of software that
steve.t's company might _actually_ care about, because I don't think it
is a French farm or a child educator.

Actually I remember school software was best served by BBC computers.
These BBCs were used as lab instruments (as well as the usual range of
class software) - I still have some. Then MS convinced schools that
PCs should be used to train students as MS consumers.

> banking software,

Most banking software is on mainframes or Unix.

But what is your actual point ?

> That's what most IT administrators want, but is not what users want.

What is important is what the _Company_ wants. The users probably want
to play games and send each other EMails with pictures of tennis stars.

> Apple, running a PowerPC made by IBM?

MIPS R4000 ?

Lueko Willms

2005-01-28, 8:55 pm

.. On 27.01.05
wrote riplin@Azonic.co.nz (Richard)
on /COMP/LANG/COBOL
in 1106887899.311813.128520@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com
about Re: OT (Maybe): ERPs

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r> Those are _really_ good reasons for _me_ to keep Windows.

German tax software is important for _me._

The problem is, Elster, the ready-made software handed out free by
the German tax office, for submitting tax declarations online, is
available only or windows. There is a module for Java, which can be
used by other software vendors to build similar functions into their
own accounting software, but that has to be done first.

I don't like this restriction, but I have to live with it.

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r> Most banking software is on mainframes or Unix.

I thought that Robert W. talked about the software used to manage
my bank account myself and communicate online with 'my' bank --
getting statements and submitting transfer orders.

I don't know if such software exists for Linux, and how good it is.

Yours,
Lüko Willms http://www.willms-edv.de
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Man stattete ihm sehr heißen, schon etwas verbrannten Dank ab. -G.C.Lichtenberg

Donald Tees

2005-01-29, 3:55 am

Richard wrote:
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> I would assume that it is not compulsory to submit on-line as that
> would be discriminatory against people who do not have a computer at
> all, let alone having to compulsory purchase a particular (alien)
> vendors products.
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> r>> Most banking software is on mainframes or Unix.
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> RW is infamous for adding 'I meants' when shown to be wrong.
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> Well, with _my_ Banks, I just use Mozilla on Mandrake Linux without any
> problem.
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Yes, me too. I never go on the net on a Windows machine. They are too
mission critical for me to risk net access, and Linux has far better
browsers. If someone sends me a file that I need on a windows machine, I
simply drag and drop it from mozzilla into a desktop folder for the
approriate windows box, and it appears on that machine's desktop
magically. But that is done by me, personally, after I have seen the
mail, and looked at the attachment. Inside my firewall.

Donald

Robert Wagner

2005-01-29, 3:55 am

On 28 Jan 2005 20:41:00 GMT, l.willms@jpberlin.de (Lueko Willms)
wrote:

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>r> Most banking software is on mainframes or Unix.
>
> I thought that Robert W. talked about the software used to manage
>my bank account myself and communicate online with 'my' bank --
>getting statements and submitting transfer orders.
>
> I don't know if such software exists for Linux, and how good it is.

I've been doing online banking, via CheckFree, for 15 years. All you
need is a Web browser. It complains about Mozilla being unsupported,
but works fine.

I think 'banking software' was a reference to back office processing,
not the customer interface.

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