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
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Pravin Dhayfule dhayfule@gmail.com wrote:
- Desktop Linux as Operating system (Open Suse, Ubuntu, Fedora etc.)
Do a proper anaylsis before selecting the distro.
- GNU Cash, GNU Khata, AVSAP or any Open Source financial Application if
the firm needs accounting software.
GNU Cash for business accounting? I'm not too sure of that. In my opinion it's fine for personal accounting but not at all for business needs.
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 14:01 +0530, Mehul Ved wrote:
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Pravin Dhayfule dhayfule@gmail.com wrote:
- Desktop Linux as Operating system (Open Suse, Ubuntu, Fedora etc.)
Dear Pravin, WE, the GNUKhata team have made the accounting/ inventory system to work on Ubuntu and would also work on debian.
For production use in office etc, Ubuntu, presisely 8.04.2 is a very rock solid, feature rich and easy to maintain OS. I personally know small and large organisations using ubuntu and myself involved on large scale deployment.
We can also help you deploy GNUKhata, not to mention the fact that we have purposely kept it flexible.
YOu can contact me off the list and we can discuss about this.
happy hacking. Krishnakant.
On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Pravin Dhayfule wrote:
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:
- Desktop Linux as Operating system (Open Suse, Ubuntu, Fedora etc.)
So you do not know the antecedents of Open Suse. Given that there are any number of other distros without a noose attached, wonder why would one recommend Suse of all things.
- Open Office as Office Application
- Lots of inbuilt tools in Linux corresponding to the tools for similar
activities in Paid OS
Actually at least an order of magnitude more tools than other Paid OS including several nixes.
- 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.
Tally has been the single stumbling block for more than 50% of SME that i know of.
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