[Ilugc] Fwd: [fosscomm] Tally Wrapper
- From: raju.rajsand@xxxxxxxxx (Rajagopal Swaminathan)
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 09:12:15 +0530
Greetings,
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Karthikeyan A.K <mindaslab at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:24 PM, balachandar muruganantham <
mbchandar at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Karthikeyan A.K <mindaslab at gmail.com>
wrote:
IMO, GNUCash has more features than Tally has. It accomodates
well with the Indian Double Book Accounting system. And it has a price
that is hard to beat.
There are many. LedgerSMB, OpenERP, OrangeHRM and so on and so forth.
I read somewhere (and often concur based on my own observations) that
most ERP project ~80% are abandoned after a initial phase as Down the
line, people on the floor have practical issues with it. Often the
implementer is, justifiably, chasing imaginary milestones and raised
invoices with payment looking like a chimera.
There are plenty of articles describing how it should be approached
and few of articles on the web describing failures. No organisation
will easily, boldly acknowledge its shelved projects.
Now I support Tally as it is the only "True" software product of
India. Though I do not like the fact that they went bak on thier word
on linux version which they announced circa 2006.
The beancounters as it is are secretive and don't care for bottomline.
Often an IT equipment purchase proposal gets a not immediately when it
comes from Accounts or Sales department: they know how to sell their
case to management. And more importantly, beancounters have the
financial scrotum of their "management" handy. Add to that, even when
a company locks out, it is the accountants and lawyers who are there
to collect their part of the leftover flesh.
So they don't care about the amount of money being spent.
It is then jarring to the ears of in accountant if you tell them that
their application is open-source. It is like the turn-off a free
software follower feels when patented software bit is mentioned.
It is then the issue of rephrasing/reframing the question: How can
open source enthusiast get the accountant to adopt open source
solution by explaining to them that their Data is perfectly safe when
encrypted and web/network traffic can be encrypted too.
Any automated sales-talk generator software out there?
Above IMHO.
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Regards,
Rajagopal
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