On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 00:45 +0530, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
On 1/2/2010 8:46 PM, Rony wrote:
**** deleted ***** You are still in a blinked situation thinking of linux savy software
professionals. A CA wanting to test the software for use will only be interested in doing it through double clicking on a .exe file so that it installs on its own.
Very true. If we want the majority to see our software we have to release it on their platform. Once gnukhata becomes gnukhata.exe, it will see a lot of downloads. It is not just CAs who use Tally. Everyone who uses the services of a CA uses Tally as that's the format used for their company accounts. If you have a word document, you need a word processor to view/edit it.
Hi Rony, I was waiting to see when you would come out in support. Of people on this list, i think you understand what the market really wants. Actually it does not even have to be a .exe file. It has to be easily installable. I should be able to load it with a single click (or at best 3).
Very true.
An interesting case here is of a client of ours in kenya, who moved to using vtiger crm only because it was available on a single exe file in windows platform where it automatically installed apache, mysql, created the database, put the relevant php files in the correct place and started the browser with the url. If he had to get a linux server, struggle for a week to get it running or pay someone to set it up for him, they would never have moved. Now after testing and run it with limited users, he is considering moving it to a server, where he will consider a linux based system.
This easy installation is such a critical situation. I wished to try the semi-finished accounting software from KG, but the installation process with downloading different dependencies and doing all the rituals put my domain expert away from it and even I being a hacker did not or could not find sufficient time to look at the entire process. On the contrary, we have seen to it that gnukhata would have just 2 deb packages, install server deb with a double click and the client as well.
We are looking at a possibility of including the postgresql server in the server deb right now.
Besides, database creation process in gnukhata is as simple as selecting the financial year, putting the name of the organisations and clicking setup.
I am happy that people on this list think alike.
Happy hacking. Krishnakant.