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Graham Lauder wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 April 2008 18:32:57 Chilling_Silence wrote:
>   
>> Greetings all, snip Currently Im supporting a small business that does Cleaning in the Auckland region.snip
>> Thoughts / comments / constructive criticism appreciated
>>
>> Cheers
>>     
>
> MYOB will be the critical sticker.  Getting businesses to change accounting 
> packages is harder than getting them to change platforms 
>   
I would be cautious running MYOB on wine. watching the lists, in the 
past some have been bitten with problems with other accounting 
software.  The official wine appdb does list some versions of myob as 
gold - i.e. works with a couple of workarounds but the testing was not 
thorough. eg:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=226
Wine 1.0 will be out very soon (next month i think) but there is only a 
very small list of supported apps hopefully guaranteed to not regress 
and myob is not one of them. That said, the progress of wine is really 
amazing.
Codeweavers also list it but do not officially support it (mind the 
wrap). with apparently not much success running it.
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/search?name=MYOB&company=&medal=&date_start%5B1%5D=1&date_start%5B2%5D=1&date_start%5B0%5D=2000&date_start%5B3%5D=0&date_start%5B4%5D=00&date_end%5B1%5D=5&date_end%5B2%5D=2&date_end%5B0%5D=2008&date_end%5B3%5D=4&date_end%5B4%5D=49&search=app

As an aside, I have not been impressed with MYOB, as last time i ran 
into it on windows XP, I seem to remember it had to have permissions 
played around with to get it running as not an administrator. 
Unfortunately I have been told that MYOB have a large share of the 
accountants in Nz. Oh and dont run wine as root <g>

HTH
jb