Talk:Sage 300/Archive 1

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accpac on linux?
It's not clear whether they make a version for Linux, or if you run a windows version with an emulator in Linux. --24.77.155.25 16:11, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

user:Kmsiever has on 17:15, 12 October 2007 placed a prod on the article. I've removed it, since ACCPAC has more than 900.000 Google hits, the company exists since 1979, belonged to CA and belongs now to Sage, which is one of the largest ERP vendors in the world. Since I've being looking after ERP/CRM articles for a while, I think there are many other candidates I'd delete before this one. --S.K. 18:07, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I favor deleting this article. As presently written, the article seems to be promoting a specific brand of software. It's been wearing an Advert tag since December 2009, yet its overall promotional tone does not seem to have improved with changes applied since then. Folklore1 (talk) 18:57, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Ahem
After years supporting AccPac in the late 80's and then more years on accounting and audit software ISV programming teams, I will try to respond in a civil manner to this sentence in the article:

"These components were eventually replaced by industry standard tools."

Add a reference, say what you mean, or delete. As it stands, I believe this article belongs in a sandbox of someone who thinks it merits an entry in WP.

There should be mention that this firm has now taken in their former competitor, Great Plains, which had been acquired by Microsoft. We are a long ways from free Visicalc and "industry standard tools" in this branch of the American software industry. It might be thought that these firms have preyed on unsophisticated business owners through doubtful relations with accounting firms which were not always at arms-length from their audit departments.

I worked in the codebase of the #1 audit software worldwide, so if I can make no sense of that statement quoted above - not as a C programmer who once worked with AccPac add-on's, not as a Smalltalk developer and not as a web develoepr - so what is the uninformed reader to think?

The sentence ending with

" ... with all new code based on Computer Associates development tools."

makes just as little sense. What "code" has ever been "based" on "development tools" except refined development tools? That does not even make sense in an unstripped Smalltalk image! Is my software "based" of the code versioning? The class browser? The syntax-hi-lighting editor?

G. Robert Shiplett 23:45, 2 March 2012 (UTC)