From: "Will Honea" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:59:24 -0700
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Reply-To: "Will Honea" <whonea@whonea.net>
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: OT: broadband connection issues
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** Reply to message from "Doug LaRue" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:43:44 -0800


> And the reason they felt they NEEDED to upgrade to MS Vista is because? Is it
> because there are people hanging from a building in NY holding an ad for 
> MS Vista? ;-/   I would think that a $50 hardware firewall/router would be a
> far better 'security' upgrade if they feel the need to run Microsoft software.
> Or put MS Windows in a virtual machine / sandbox for required apps. And
> now, with VirtualBox, they could even run OS/2 in a VM if there's software there
> they could use.
> 
> The worth thing about this "new OS" is that customers will find it difficult to NOT
> get the product on a new computer and that infection will cost extra. At the
> very least, they'll have to pay to purchase and install the version/OS they are
> currently standardized on. Can you say, 'thank you sir, may I have another'? :-/

In this case, it was more of a pragmatic decision to be made.  I got them a
good deal on whitebox no-OS machines to replace older HP Pavilions that were
becoming hard to keep running - cheaper to replace than to upgrade drives,
memory, etc.  They have licenses for W2K/Office2000 (Pro level) but the concern
was EOL support.  By the time we figured out the cost of getting the OS and
some apps up to date to retain support, the numbers got scary.  I'm in the
process of setting up one station with openSUSE but I've got one program that
is holding up the works.

You wouldn't know of a decent accounting program for Linux do you? 

criteria: 
1. Contribution tracking, AP/AR/payroll functions, custom reports and forms
printing.
2. free or low cost
3. easy enough for non-account type users to learn
4. built-in membership tracking or an associated module/program a plus

I'm having problems finding anything that comes close - about as hard as
finding OS/2 apps anymore..

-- 
Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net>