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Accounting systems: a rant and a quest

Accounting systems: a rant and a quest

Posted May 10, 2012 19:29 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524)
In reply to: Accounting systems: a rant and a quest by jcm
Parent article: Accounting systems: a rant and a quest

Whereas if you shell out for Quickbooks, when it terminally breaks you get to keep all the pieces, but they may refund you your original purchase-price.

Software-contracts where somebody actually promises to fix things if they break, costs *MUCH* more than off-the-shelf software. Typically orders of magnitude more.


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