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).
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.
Or if someone sets it up for him. He is not going to develop inhouse linux expertise just to be able to test this software.
True
Secondly, the CA concerned is not going to bother to test the software and then put details of bugs he has found on the mailing list and sit on his hunches waiting for somone some time to respond. He would instead be interested only if he has a direct access to the developer where he can pick up the phone and say "hey buddy, this is what we did and it went like this which is not how the accounts should be." and to be able to explain what happened or should happen and perhaps get them to duplicate it at their end. If you want domain experts to do the software testing, then you cant (at least in this case) wait for a linux savy and linux expert CA to come and do it.
Yes. Many people are not 'file a bug report' savvy.