Re: Interesting coverage of our project on the SQL-Ledger-users list

["Chris Travers" <..hidden..>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:36 AM,  <..hidden..> wrote:

> I believe the question comes down to who your customers are.  I can't tell
> you what you should do because I don't know who your customers are, or the
> type of customers you aspire to obtain.

I think I can provide some more insight into this issue.

Currently LSMB needs a lot of work to be a first-class accounting and
ERP package.  We all know this.   For this reason, there is a sense
that people who want to be running LSMB are already currently trying
to run FOSS wherever possible.  This makes Josh's point currently
valid.

However, the question is what happens as a lot of this work gets done.
 As this happens, we will be expanding more into the smaller and the
midrange markets, and here you have questions relating to "I don't
want to learn another browser as well as a new accounting package" and
"our IT department specifies IE only..."  I would prefer not to turn
away these customers unless they are insistant on sticking with old,
broken versions of IE.  If a new version of IE fixes the problems, I
have no problem saying "upgrade or install Firefox."

Hence my view has generally been "I would like to think about IE
support, but it isn't a pressing concern given the problems."  With
IE8 fixing the showstoppers, I think we can move that up on the
priority list.

Hope this helps,
Chris Travers