Another idea from pick goes mainstream...

#41

Hi
The quote was not mine it came from a feature review. If this Firebird
thing is any good it makes one wonder why Quickbooks have not done it
already.
My personal opinion is that there is no such thing as a free lunch. One
should also be aware of the massive penalties for supplying something that
does not work as indicated. In Australia government contracts throw
basically unlimited liability on the supplier ie you not Firebird. The
computer contract area outside of government is a minefield of liabilities
by supplying a known product from a recognised supplier at a known price and
description one can reduce the risk significantly. Open Source is something
I would not touch with a bargepole unless the buyer was willing to sign a
contract accepting all liability for its effectiveness.
Peter McMurray
"Kevin Powick" <nospam (AT) spamless (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Excalibur wrote:

If QuickBooks incorporated a more robust database, its price would
increase.

Not necessarily. They could use one of several embedded databases that
wouldn't cost them very much, if nothing at all. Firebird comes to
mind as one example. It certainly is a full-featured (record locking,
transactions, etc) database.

--
Kevin Powick

#42

Excalibur wrote:

Quote:

If this
Firebird thing is any good it makes one wonder why Quickbooks have
not done it already.

That's funny. Replace "Firebird" with Pick and that's essentially the
same statement you get from a lot of people when trying to sell
MV-based solutins.

Quote:

Open Source is something I would not touch
with a bargepole unless the buyer was willing to sign a contract
accepting all liability for its effectiveness.

Using the right tools for the job is the key to effectivness,
regardless of the tool/product being open or closed source.

--
Kevin Powick

#43

"Luke Chunderpuke" wrote:

Quote:

During one of the many management changes of my youth, a new MIS
director referred to our accounting/payroll system as being written in
an old obsolete language (RPL). Our programmer replied, "And yet it
still works!" There's a box somewhere in an Atlanta. I'm sure people
are still looking up historical (1990's) data on it because they had so
much trouble porting it to Oracle. But I've been wrong before.

You may not be surprised to know that RPL is alive and well. The
BCP/MCS software is still the best businss/manufacturing package I've
ever seen and it's only getting better. A little GUI here and a
little web service there and it will be as marketable as it is
functional - quite in-line with the theme of this thread.

Tony
TG@ removethisNebula-RnD.com

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