Re: A Challenge?

In message <ant0517100b09GWx@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Michael Gilbert <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <a3538ed44d%beamendsltd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, beamendsltd
> <URL:mailto:beamendsltd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In message <78fc88d44d.cferris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > cferris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
>
> [snip]
>
>
> > > As you seem to not be able to find someone to update your RISC OS
> > > accounts program - then Window/IBM machine is the only way.
> > >
> >
> > Indeed. I even tried Linux, but to no avail. Mac is out on the
> > same basis as ROS. A sad day - Turbocash was the last straw I'd found to
> > cling at :-( I've already got the Dell at home, just need to get my
> > head round Turbocash and then the big switch off - this RPC has been on
> > 27/7/364 (turned it off on Christams Day last year) for the last 4 years.
> >
> > > Bit like people buying Foreign Cars,motorcycles,tractors lorries etc...
> > >
> > > What jobs will be left here for the youngsters to do - I don't know :-(
> > >
> >
> > Minimum wage ones - Macdonalds, Burger King, "the exiting world of
> > distribution" (aka order pickers - very popular in Stoke since the
> > potteries are all but gone), crappy hotel jobs ("the exciting world of
> > Tourism") and.......... Call-centres. Third-world status here we come!
> >
> > Or you can join the Civil Service, do bugger all, have compulsory sick
> > leave and retire before everyone else with an index linked pension ;-)
> >
> Fine words from someone who isn't supporting the British software
> industry. Where do you expect companies to make money, if you won't buy
> their products? I don't particularly think Sage are the greatest thing
> since sliced bread, but if you actually feel like putting your money
> where your mouth is, Gateshead isn't too foreign.
>

Ahem - I *am* supporting British software - why do you think I have
struggled on with !Prophet for so long - indeed, why did I buy it in the
first place?

Sage is Sage, and I'm sure the accounts side is wonderful - but the stock
control is *crap* - only short descriptions allowed, no alternative
suppliers, no "spare" fields (to allow CSV export to web sites), supplier
stock numbers not diferentiated from customer stock numbers, etc etc
If you have a flexible inventory of up to 60,000 items it is useless.
Plus, if you have anything above a very basic system, it can get very
expensive.

> And I suppose the US-owned corporate monster who assembled your PC in
> Cork helps UK industry?

If an accounts package on ROS appears, I will buy 2 A9's - really neat
machines, great for shows etc, but there is no point without the software.
For years we moaned about the lack of new hardware, and now it's here
the main *essential* application for business is missing - it's not even
that it doesn't exist - it just needs some work on it and it could be
a killer app. The author has (quite reasonably) "moved on" for pretty
much the same reasons I am (i.e. the need to run a profitable business).

>
> Motes and beams, Richard, motes and beams.

I'm not sure what that means, but as I've said repeatedly - without a
developed accounts/stock control package then ROS is not viable for
anything but a very small business and that is out of my control as I
don't have time to run a business and develop a (large) program at the
same time. It's not as though I've just decided this, I've been pointing out
the deficiency for years.

There's £500.00 sitting here I'd nuch rather spend on a !Prophet upgrade
(or similar) rather than spend on Microsoft Office, and another
£1000.00 for 2 A9's, but I can't!

>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>

Richard
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