"Quickbooks" = "momentum"
Say what you want about Intuit's products, the marketing was innovative
and genius at the time. They practically gave away Quicken...it worked
well enough...they were constantly updating (which equated to presence
and top of mind market share)...and they developed a nationwide network
of local peeps that will hold your hand if you get the jitters and they
enlisted accounting firms in the effort to earn credibility.
Quicken/Quickbooks was also groundbreaking in not forcing you to "post"
and "close" accounting periods....I still remember seeing accountants
eyes bulge out when they discovered that you actually could go back to a
prior, closed accounting period and *gasp!* CHANGE something!!!
Oh...my....god....it was the end of the world in Bean land.
Intuit's technology sucks, but Quickbooks is also a great example of a
product completely defining and controlling a software segment. THAT
takes skill! Especially the controlling part for any period of time.
I don't care for Quickbooks/Quicken either, but I respect what Intuit
has accomplished.
Mike
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)
From: Kevin Cully <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 11/16/2012 10:12 AM
It's nice that RealBasic works with SQLite fairly seamlessly. It makes
it easy to create an in-memory database much like we have cursors in
VFP. Full SQL capability of SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE is
sweet. (Dabo has had this capability for a long time as well.)
If by 'proprietary' you mean tied to a particular database, then I
wholeheartedly agree. People want freedom with their database choice
and their ability to extend it.
Side note: Why do so many people choose Quickbooks with it's proprietary
database and ridiculous licensing fees?
On 11/16/2012 11:02 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
I think the days of tools having their own proprietary databases are
well behind us, thankfully.
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