Longer release times for better quality?

[wizard10000]

Re: Longer release times for better quality?

This is why there are LTS releases...

Exactly.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Longer release times for better quality?

-Open Office isn't better than MS Office

Er...

Microsoft Office, standard edition = £350
OpenOffice = £0

I'd say that's an awful lot better, wouldn't you?

That's an excellent start, and to add to it OOo has an excellent database manager for a variety of back ends. I've connected it to text, dbf, PostgreSQL and Oracle, to name a few. Not only that, you can use its FORMS tool to create user GUI's to the data, with navigation tools automatically added. You cvan create and store queries, etc... You can merge mail data with letters. In fact, IMO, using OOo and creating your own dbs, forms, etc. one could create an office management tool that could include the Big Five - AR, AP, PR, POS, GL

[monte48lowes]

Re: Longer release times for better quality?

In fact, IMO, using OOo and creating your own dbs, forms, etc. one could create an office management tool that could include the Big Five - AR, AP, PR, POS, GL

With that many acronyms a person would think you served in the military at one point.

Mike

[MoonRise]

Re: Longer release times for better quality?

In fact, IMO, using OOo and creating your own dbs, forms, etc. one could create an office management tool that could include the Big Five - AR, AP, PR, POS, GL

With that many acronyms a person would think you served in the military at one point.

Mike

Unfortunately, due to what I do, I understand those acronyms . I never actually experimented with OOo in that way.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Longer release times for better quality?

In fact, IMO, using OOo and creating your own dbs, forms, etc. one could create an office management tool that could include the Big Five - AR, AP, PR, POS, GL

With that many acronyms a person would think you served in the military at one point.

Mike

The military rejected me. But, they didn't reject my HS buddy. I talked him into signing up with me on the "Buddy Plan". He passed the physical and I failed it. He ended up in Korea. I ended up in the library to see what "Hammer toes" is. I found out why I always wore out the tops of my shoes before I wore out the soles. I've had two "corrective" surgeries on my toes but both failed to deliver what the podiatrists promised. With deformities added by the failed surgeries, walking has become a painful task. Interestingly, I was "promoted" from 4F to 3Y (IIRC) when I earned my graduate degree. College trained people make better cannon fodder?

AR = Accounts Receivable (a customer invoices database from which current, past 30, 60, 90 day customer receivables can be generated)
AP = Accounts Payable (a purchase invoices database from which encumbrances can be generated)
PR = PayRoll (contains employee database linked to time records db, leave records db, and a calendar with holidays)
POS = Point Of Sale (Presents a new or existing customer invoice linking customer to invoices to inventory)
GL = General Ledger (General Journal entries generated by the other process create monthly GJ entries which are proofed. End of month operations post GJ entries to the GL for a permanent record, and the GJ is cleared for the next month's entries. All activities are controlled by the Chart of Accounts and various financial reports are generated from the GL and CoA. Enterprise accounting usually is several CoA's for subdivisions feeding into a master CoA for the entire corporation, along with future encumbrances.

GAAP = Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.