Yeah I got your point.
Indeed by transitioning I mean to say for a fresh setup for users who are familiar to tally. For example a new firm who has decided to go for Open Source Platform, this can be recommended to them:
1. Desktop Linux as Operating system (Open Suse, Ubuntu, Fedora etc.) 2. Open Office as Office Application 3. Lots of inbuilt tools in Linux corresponding to the tools for similar activities in Paid OS 4. GNU Cash, GNU Khata, AVSAP or any Open Source financial Application if the firm needs accounting software.
There's always a quest to learn new things, so enthusiastic and optimistic people may not hesitate to tryout these new applications.
Bye Regards
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Indranil Das Gupta indradg@gmail.com To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 11:55:46 +0530 Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] OSALT for Tally? Hi Pravin,
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Pravin Dhayfule dhayfule@gmail.com wrote:
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Has anyone used it, so that I can lay out points on transitioning from
Tally
to GnuCash or any other OpenSource/Free Alternative to Tally.
Not nitpicking, but have you used the word "transitioning" thoughtfully?
Accounting / workflow / ERP software are not just software that works, they create and manage data. So, if you actually *mean* migration, you may first want to take a look at the data export / migration options from your existing prop. package, rather than anything else.
So, if your existing data can't be exported the "migration" project may entirely fail, as it is not usually feasible to re-enter years or even months of existing business data into the new system. And AFAIK, tally uses some sort of prop. data storage schema which is neither open nor documented. You may not face this problem if you are starting out the accounting practise at a new firm / company with zero backlog.
hth -indra