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Is there still life in TurboCASH 3? This report from Chris Lee in Auckland, would suggest that TurboCASH is well ahead of the technology curve.
"At last we have some activity on
the TurboCASH front, here in NZ. There is no doubt that we have a
excellent product in the existing offering of the Version 3 and it is
improved with the release of Version 4. The very first question that
needs to be asked by someone thinking about using this product is,
“Which version do I use?”.
The answer is very simple, unless you
are a very experience user, stay with Version 3. This is a product
that has been around for sometime and nearly all the warts have been
removed. There is no need to run at the new product unless there is a
really good reason. Let someone else have the problem of working with
a new release and sorting any problems out, why should you.
What you have got is a formulae that
will give you an ability to raise your invoices easily and then post
the details through to an accounting system that can tell you what
you have been selling, if you have made any money, etc., etc. Does
all this come at a cost? Of course it does, you have to work though a
new system, understand what it does and doesn't do, how it does what
it does. But, and this has to be the big 'But', you are not on your
own. Look through the forums in the TurboCASH website and you will
see how active it is, how current the questions are. At the very end,
and you are still not getting an answer to a problem, there are
people on the ground, here in NZ that can help. Compare this with the
bought variety, where you have to look after yourself until you can
go no further and then pay the going rates to get someone to help.
Open Source, like TurboCASH, is not the
cheap alternative, as in low quality, but rather the way forward with
people who will help by cooperation. As an aside, more progress was
made in the early days of computers when there were groups of people
helping each other understand the new technology and how it worked.
Open Source is a way of cooperation, paying when necessary, but
essentially, progressing.
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