There was a time that I was an MS-certified network admin.
And then the "tech bubble" burst, and layoffs were rampant.
And suddendly there basically was no IT job market unless you lived in one of the big cities like Chicago or NYC.
And I have never in my life met somebody making $80,000+ in an IT position unless it was something like a district VP of IT for a large corporation... where they get these "averages" from continues to astound me. I didn't even make half of that when I was an admin.
Add to that how the market has gotten to be such an employer's market that they basically try to hire IT Gods and pay them $12/hr to do it, while at the same time expecting them to invest huge amounts of time and money into training...
Sorry, it's not worth it. If you managed to get one of the very, very few IT jobs that still pays well without running you ragged, consider yourself very lucky.
Is this a public school or private? I can tell you if this was coming out of my tax dollars I'd be pretty PO'd.
But then again, I can also tell you that I lived in Tulsa for a while, and they LOVE taxes there. Pretty much any tax that goes to the polls will get passed.
The only "native" equivalent software I've found so far (and I've looked extensively) is a product called MyBooks from Appgen:
http://www.appgen.com/aptus/my_books_professional_ linux2.htm
However, the linux version is a client/server product, meaning you have to have a server running in the background to use the program, even if it's being run on one machine.
I tried out the Windows version which was decent, but for the life of me I couldn't get it to work right on my Linux box and didn't feel it was worth struggling with.
In the end I gave up and decided to use GnuCash for the books and OpenOffice for inventory tracking.
I don't know about 2006 - but I can't tell you 2007 won't work. At all. It uses a.NET backbone now, which won't run under Linux to matter what you do - I own it, and I've tried repeatedly.
How many people really care about the server back-end when it comes to something like Quickbooks? Very, very few.
The fact that neither Quickbooks nor Peachtree will run under Linux is a HUGE stepping stone for anyone who wants to use it for small business purposes, and this does very little to fix that.
The lack of lower pricing is going to kill this almost as fast as it can get out the door. One of the main pushes for Linux on commercial machines is the perception that they're paying that $100+ shelf price for Windows to be on the PC.
If they're about the same price, who in their right mind wouldn't get the Windows version "just in case" and then just get a free copy of Ubuntu to load themselves?
Sorry Dell, this isn't going to fly with most of your customers...
The thing that drives me nuts about politicians trying to push an "internet sales tax" for items purchased outside of state, is that most, if not all states ALREADY HAVE ONE. It's called a Use Tax. If you purchase something outside of the state, you're supposed to file a tax payment with your local state.
However, most people don't even know it exists, because it's rarely if ever enforced.
I hate it when politicians try to create "new" laws that do exactly the same thing as another law that's already on the books but nobody's bothering to enforce.
Well, the timeframe I'm thinking of was well before XP was out - in fact 2000 was just rolling out as I recall. Might have been the same policy at the time though.
Well, maybe I'm just remembering wrong, but I could swear Dell DID offer Linux on their systems back around the turn of the century.
If there really was a large demand for it - as in people actually buying pre-loaded systems - wouldn't they still be doing it?
And we all know just because tons of people sign a poll saying they'd like to see Linux on the systems - that doesn't mean they're all willing to cough up the dough to actually *buy* one of those systems.
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There was a time that I was an MS-certified network admin. And then the "tech bubble" burst, and layoffs were rampant. And suddendly there basically was no IT job market unless you lived in one of the big cities like Chicago or NYC. And I have never in my life met somebody making $80,000+ in an IT position unless it was something like a district VP of IT for a large corporation... where they get these "averages" from continues to astound me. I didn't even make half of that when I was an admin. Add to that how the market has gotten to be such an employer's market that they basically try to hire IT Gods and pay them $12/hr to do it, while at the same time expecting them to invest huge amounts of time and money into training... Sorry, it's not worth it. If you managed to get one of the very, very few IT jobs that still pays well without running you ragged, consider yourself very lucky.
Is this a public school or private? I can tell you if this was coming out of my tax dollars I'd be pretty PO'd. But then again, I can also tell you that I lived in Tulsa for a while, and they LOVE taxes there. Pretty much any tax that goes to the polls will get passed.
The only "native" equivalent software I've found so far (and I've looked extensively) is a product called MyBooks from Appgen: http://www.appgen.com/aptus/my_books_professional_ linux2.htm
However, the linux version is a client/server product, meaning you have to have a server running in the background to use the program, even if it's being run on one machine.
I tried out the Windows version which was decent, but for the life of me I couldn't get it to work right on my Linux box and didn't feel it was worth struggling with.
In the end I gave up and decided to use GnuCash for the books and OpenOffice for inventory tracking.
I don't know about 2006 - but I can't tell you 2007 won't work. At all. It uses a .NET backbone now, which won't run under Linux to matter what you do - I own it, and I've tried repeatedly.
How many people really care about the server back-end when it comes to something like Quickbooks? Very, very few. The fact that neither Quickbooks nor Peachtree will run under Linux is a HUGE stepping stone for anyone who wants to use it for small business purposes, and this does very little to fix that.
The lack of lower pricing is going to kill this almost as fast as it can get out the door. One of the main pushes for Linux on commercial machines is the perception that they're paying that $100+ shelf price for Windows to be on the PC. If they're about the same price, who in their right mind wouldn't get the Windows version "just in case" and then just get a free copy of Ubuntu to load themselves? Sorry Dell, this isn't going to fly with most of your customers...
The thing that drives me nuts about politicians trying to push an "internet sales tax" for items purchased outside of state, is that most, if not all states ALREADY HAVE ONE. It's called a Use Tax. If you purchase something outside of the state, you're supposed to file a tax payment with your local state. However, most people don't even know it exists, because it's rarely if ever enforced. I hate it when politicians try to create "new" laws that do exactly the same thing as another law that's already on the books but nobody's bothering to enforce.
Well, the timeframe I'm thinking of was well before XP was out - in fact 2000 was just rolling out as I recall. Might have been the same policy at the time though.
Well, maybe I'm just remembering wrong, but I could swear Dell DID offer Linux on their systems back around the turn of the century. If there really was a large demand for it - as in people actually buying pre-loaded systems - wouldn't they still be doing it? And we all know just because tons of people sign a poll saying they'd like to see Linux on the systems - that doesn't mean they're all willing to cough up the dough to actually *buy* one of those systems.
Not bad for a 3MB file... Gotta love the Slashdot effect... :P