Re:In other words, it's a training issue as much a
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 17, 2004 12:13 PM
Quickbooks may have dream market share now, but Intuit, Adobe, Macromedia and others are going to be crushed in the next few years if they don't already have a Linux strategy and aren't actively porting to Linux or at a bare minimum attempting to cut corners by running on Java or some other emulation garbage.
The reader fails to understand how crucial money is to a business. Lotus 123 was the killer app that made PC's popular in businesses, but now Quickbooks is really the killer app for small businesses. It makes accounting accessible to the small businessman, and kills any alternative that doesn't run it. Intuit is the pillar that holds up the Micro$oft world in small businesses. And that world won't fall to Linux until Intuit makes a change. Intuit doesn't have to change. And I have no doubt that M$ will do everything it can to keep them from changing, too. Quickbooks may well be the killer app that keeps Linux at bay for a long time.
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Re:In other words, it's a training issue as much a
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 17, 2004 12:13 PMThe reader fails to understand how crucial money is to a business. Lotus 123 was the killer app that made PC's popular in businesses, but now Quickbooks is really the killer app for small businesses. It makes accounting accessible to the small businessman, and kills any alternative that doesn't run it. Intuit is the pillar that holds up the Micro$oft world in small businesses. And that world won't fall to Linux until Intuit makes a change. Intuit doesn't have to change. And I have no doubt that M$ will do everything it can to keep them from changing, too. Quickbooks may well be the killer app that keeps Linux at bay for a long time.
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