...and I'm not talking about selling stuff on eBay or programming shareware at home. Are there any *real* business owners (one with employees, that pays rents, has a building(s), etc.) here that can comment? I feel like these kinds of topics are simply flooded by college kids who have no clue, whatsoever about "Linux on the business desktop". I know there's no way our small company (5 employees plus myself) could swing it. How about other business owners?
Yup. Bookkeeping, and since we're a retailer, also off-the-shelf point of sale (I say off-the-shelf because I invariably have somebody chime in with "Home Depot uses it"). It wouldn't just be an OS switch, we'd have to change the entire core of our business. Even then, there's no Linux expertise on staff, so it would cost thousands just to get stuff set up and configured. Maybe, maybe if we had 100 people, and maybe one or two Linux guys, maybe I'd consider it, but then the boo
As someone else pointed out, SQL-Ledger is good for bookkeeping.
I think you may be missing one of the key advantages of open source for business software. If SQL-Ledger isn't exactly what you want, then you're free to pay the author (or anyone else, for that matter) to make it *exactly* what you want. If you need features X/Y/Z, then he can implement them in *exactly* the way you specify.
When you count the true costs you're currently paying for bookkeeping software, you might well come to the conclusion
With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once
build a nuclear balm?
Any other business owners here? (Score:2)
Re:Any other business owners here? (Score:2)
We are a business with 100 employees worldwide. Agree it is difficult.
What is making you say "no way" for your business? A small business ought to get uite far - what is holding it up? Bookkeeping apps maybe?
Mike
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Yup. Bookkeeping, and since we're a retailer, also off-the-shelf point of sale (I say off-the-shelf because I invariably have somebody chime in with "Home Depot uses it"). It wouldn't just be an OS switch, we'd have to change the entire core of our business. Even then, there's no Linux expertise on staff, so it would cost thousands just to get stuff set up and configured. Maybe, maybe if we had 100 people, and maybe one or two Linux guys, maybe I'd consider it, but then the boo
Re:Any other business owners here? (Score:2)
I think you may be missing one of the key advantages of open source for business software. If SQL-Ledger isn't exactly what you want, then you're free to pay the author (or anyone else, for that matter) to make it *exactly* what you want. If you need features X/Y/Z, then he can implement them in *exactly* the way you specify.
When you count the true costs you're currently paying for bookkeeping software, you might well come to the conclusion