Cobol - Re: OT (Maybe): ERPs

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Re: OT (Maybe): ERPs

Richard

2005-01-29, 8:55 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 ?

LX-i

2005-01-31, 3:55 am

Lueko Willms wrote:
>
> 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.

Have you tried using the Win version through wine on Linux? You might
find that it works. :)

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Lueko Willms

2005-01-31, 8:55 am

.. On 30.01.05
wrote lxi0007@netscape.net (LX-i)
on /COMP/LANG/COBOL
in fhgLd.23232$8j3.2389@fe40.usenetserver.com
about Re: OT (Maybe): ERPs

on Windows-only tax programs:

l> Have you tried using the Win version through wine on Linux?

For one, I barely use Linux, and secondly, I have not yet used said
program at all.

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LX-i

2005-01-31, 8:55 pm

Lueko Willms wrote:
> . On 30.01.05
> wrote lxi0007@netscape.net (LX-i)
> on /COMP/LANG/COBOL
> in fhgLd.23232$8j3.2389@fe40.usenetserver.com
> about Re: OT (Maybe): ERPs
>
> on Windows-only tax programs:
>
> l> Have you tried using the Win version through wine on Linux?
>
> For one, I barely use Linux, and secondly, I have not yet used said
> program at all.

Ah - you seemed dejected that it's only available for Windows. I took
that to mean that you normally liked using something other than that.
(Of course, Linux isn't the only non-Windows OS out there...)

I've been pleasantly surprised by the number of apps that work with wine.

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