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  1. Access by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Set Your Watches For the End of Windows XP

    I forget: can LibreOffice's database product run commercial off-the-shelf software written in VBA for Microsoft Access? I worked for a company that depended on something called Stone Edge.

  2. Stone Age Order Mangler by tepples · · Score: 1 · on ODF 1.2 Is Approved

    So stop buying Ms office and get a real office package

    That's sort of hard if your business depends on commercial off-the-shelf applications that run in Access+VBA, such as Stone Edge Order Manager.

  3. Re:Paying for apps by tepples · · Score: 0 · on Google Adds Licensing Server DRM To Android Market

    there are free open source programs that do what turbotax does. Kmoney comes to mind.

    KMyMoney can replace Quicken, but TurboTax comes with a translation of the latest United States tax code and the tax codes of the several states into executable code. It's unlikely that free software maintained by hobbyists can keep up with annual amendments to multiple jurisdictions' tax laws.

    Stone Edge Order Manager

    I don't know what this is. Sorry, skipping.

    I explained it in this post, and it has a web site.

    I wouldn't call [Linux's dearth of native games] failing to deliver by anyone other than the companies who made the games.

    If most companies that make games fail to deliver, it is up to free software developers to deliver in their stead. No, NetHack and Dwarf Fortress aren't enough.

  4. Find me Free alternatives to these by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Windows 7's Virtual XP Mode a Support Nightmare?

    Either that or we _will_ replace your application with a Free alternative

    Some categories of application tend not to have a comparable Free alternative:

    • Major label video games: Where's the Free alternative to Smash Bros., Spore, or any EA Sports title? And why does Mario Kart DS still kick the behind of TuxKart?
    • Vertical market software: Where's the Free alternative to Stone Edge Order Manager?
  5. Re:Ummm....Nope. by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Office 2007 In Linux With WINE

    Hello, OOo devs, when doing XYZ the program goes ABC but I was expecting DEF.

    Hello, OOo devs, when trying to install this $6,000 Access+VBA app on OpenOffice.org Base, I expected the setup screen to appear, but nothing appears at all. What's the next step?

  6. Re:Vista by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Notebook Sales Outpace Desktop Sales

    I buy and install Office

    Do you live in 1998 ? Linux has been doing everything you listed here since KDE 1.0 and StarOffice 5.0.

    Does StarOffice or OpenOffice.org run applications delivered as an Access+VBA database, such as Stone Edge Order Manager? If not, what alternative to Stone Edge Order Manager do you recommend?

  7. Mac has no Access by tepples · · Score: 1 · on The Myth of Upgrade Inevitability Is Dead

    I really do not see the benefit of upgrading from XP to Vista for most business users - who, lets face it, are doing web, email, word and excel. Is there really anything they can;t do just now?

    For one thing, as of July 2008, Windows Vista Business can "do[] web, email, word, and excel" on a newly purchased computer without having to find drivers and install the Windows XP Professional "downgrade".

    What about Mac OS X - doesn't that provide much the same 'new' features?

    Mac OS X has no Microsoft Access. No Access means no Stone Edge Order Manager. To what package do you recommend that small businesses that use Order Manager migrate?

  8. Re:that would be nice by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over

    There are very few tasks where there's already not a piece of software that does the same thing. Including or excluding games? And what Free alternative to Stone Edge Order Manager does anyone recommend?
  9. DOS+Windows bundling; inflation; more features by tepples · · Score: 1 · on WGA Under Vista SP1 Is Kinder and Nags More

    Windows 3.1 was $130 and commonly discounted to $80. That was for the whole OS, not split up so you have 4 different versions. The top price was $80. The cost was low because Microsoft had competition. drsmithy pointed out how you might have forgotten to take into account inflation, larger feature sets, and the bundling of MS-DOS into the Windows 95 and Windows 98 SKUs.

    But for MS Windows, the cost doubled or tripled. All because consumers refuse to use alternatives. Citation needed. Plenty of home users and graphic designers use Apple computers, which do not come with any version of Windows. Businesses, on the other hand, need to run vertical-market software that isn't tested on Wine. In the case of my employer, if I drop Microsoft software, I have to drop Stone Edge Order Manager, which runs on top of Access. Which package should an online retailer use instead of that one?
  10. Set the initial file format with Group Policy? by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Michael Meeks On ODF and OOXML

    With MSOffice 2007, due to the default file format issue

    Use of the word "default" is deprecated. That said, can't a Group Policy change the initial file format that Microsoft Office 2007 applications suggest?

    As long as you don't have macros [...] Or ..... Access databases.

    You've just found the show-stopper.

  11. Linux in people's homes by tepples · · Score: 1 · on The Linux Identity Crisis

    What zero clicks? Most people use pre-installed operating systems. Exactly. A lot of users on Slashdot want some OEM with a recognized brand name to make and promote home workstations that come with GNU/Linux operating systems. Dell Ubuntu systems are a good start.

    Almost every major server vendor will sell you server with Linux installed and supported. How much more mainstream do you want? Something like Windows Home Server: computing appliances for the home that wear the penguin on their sleeve.

    Open Office does its job perfectly well. But what is "its job"? Does OpenOffice.org run something comparable to Stone Edge Order Manager? As far as I can tell, one needs Microsoft Access for this VBA app.
  12. Re:accdb? by tepples · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Apple Gives $100 Store Credit To iPhone Customers

    Although it is an 'independent' company, FileMaker blows Access out of the water and you can use it on windows. But can a $1000 proprietary application that runs within Access be ported to FileMaker? Being locked into a particular order tracking system brings along Microsoft Office Access lock-in, which due to bundle pricing brings along lock-in to the rest of Microsoft Office software, discouraging people from trying Apple or Sun products.
  13. They needed databases, too... by wizbit · · Score: 3, Interesting · on VisiCalc Turns 25, Creators Interviewed

    Don't forget DB Master for the Apple II. Sold several million copies - a modernized version of it is still used in public works offices around the world, even 20 years later.

    The original author still does DB work for this company.

  14. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Why MySQL Grew So Fast

    that is EXACTLY what these guys did. you meant .mde, but they don't even use it - the source code is provided w/ the app (for $1,000).