Why advocating Linux can be an up hill battle...

[Marc Evans]

While this is technologically true, the tech support people at QuickBooks
need to have a recipe driven envrionment which they can assist their
customers with, when called on the phone. To not constrain the platforms
allowed to be used for various aspects of a products use would make this
tech support difficult to impossible for them. So, instead if you use
software/hardware other then what they claim to support, they will likely
try their best to a point to provide support, and then say that you have
an unsupported configuration and that they can't help any further.

- Marc

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Hewitt Tech wrote:

> I agree. This isn't true. I can't think of any reason why the QuickBooks
> apps can't be file served using Linux/Samba
>
> -Alex
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Lawson" <k1vp at grizzy.com>
> To: "Hewitt Tech" <hewitt_tech at attbi.com>
> Cc: <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 3:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Why advocating Linux can be an up hill battle...
>
>
> Hewitt Tech wrote:
>
> >One of my clients is running an all windows shop. He does this because his
> >primary application, QuickBooks, is Windows based and because the
> QuickBooks
> >folks require a Windows server to host their application in a networked
> >environment.
> >
> I'm not sure this is true.  We have Quickbooks Pro and all the data is
> on a Linux/Samba server.  Different workstations access the data without
> a problem.
>
> Ed Lawson
>
>
>
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