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Or to put it into really tech terms, it's a shared database file, a system lacking a DBMS.
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Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
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@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
Is it a surprise that it is crap?
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@scottalanmiller said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
Is it a surprise that it is crap?
Nope. Just seeing learning more about exactly why it's crap.
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@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
How old is your sage install?
We have Business Works (formally Business Works Gold). I'm pretty sure they have moved onto a real DB connection. They use a Pervasive DB.
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Business class databases always have a database server. Even simple websites like a WordPress site use a real RDBMS. Basically, Sage and QB don't see themselves in the same category, or even remotely close, with a little hobby blog site.
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Which, by extension, tells you a lot about what your accounting and financial staff thinks of the business.
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@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
How old is your sage install?
We have Business Works (formally Business Works Gold). I'm pretty sure they have moved onto a real DB connection. They use a Pervasive DB.
We've had it literally since the beginning of time (when it was still Peachtree Accounting). We "upgraded" from version 2017 to 2018 last week.
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@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
How old is your sage install?
We have Business Works (formally Business Works Gold). I'm pretty sure they have moved onto a real DB connection. They use a Pervasive DB.
We've had it literally since the beginning of time (when it was still Peachtree Accounting). We "upgraded" from version 2017 to 2018 last week.
What's it called?
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@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
How old is your sage install?
We have Business Works (formally Business Works Gold). I'm pretty sure they have moved onto a real DB connection. They use a Pervasive DB.
We've had it literally since the beginning of time (when it was still Peachtree Accounting). We "upgraded" from version 2017 to 2018 last week.
What's it called?
? Peachtree Accounting, as I understand it, was the original application. The company that developed it was bought by Sage, which rebranded the applicaiton to Sage Accounting [insert flavor here]. We use Sage 50 Quantum.
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Pervasive makes both PSQL and Btrieve products.
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Looks like Sage bought Peachtree in 1999, so we've been using this application since at least then.
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@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Looks like Sage bought Peachtree in 1999, so we've been using this application since at least then.
Sure, there's no reason that Sage couldn't have converted it to a DBMS
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@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
How old is your sage install?
We have Business Works (formally Business Works Gold). I'm pretty sure they have moved onto a real DB connection. They use a Pervasive DB.
We've had it literally since the beginning of time (when it was still Peachtree Accounting). We "upgraded" from version 2017 to 2018 last week.
What's it called?
? Peachtree Accounting, as I understand it, was the original application. The company that developed it was bought by Sage, which rebranded the applicaiton to Sage Accounting [insert flavor here]. We use Sage 50 Quantum.
Wow, that website is a joke. It looks like a high school kid's project.
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@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Looks like Sage bought Peachtree in 1999, so we've been using this application since at least then.
Sure, there's no reason that Sage couldn't have converted it to a DBMS
Every blog did it, pretty sad if accounting software can't.
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Why isn't businesses going with something like Workday (https://www.workday.com/) instead of hosting their own like Sage?
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@black3dynamite said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Why isn't businesses going with something like Workday (https://www.workday.com/) instead of hosting their own like Sage?
I think all the serious ones do
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@black3dynamite said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Why isn't businesses going with something like Workday (https://www.workday.com/) instead of hosting their own like Sage?
Because I will not, ever, use a company that has such shit software, that I have to fork over sales info to watc( a 3 minute demo video.
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@jaredbusch said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@black3dynamite said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Why isn't businesses going with something like Workday (https://www.workday.com/) instead of hosting their own like Sage?
Because I will not, ever, use a company that has such shit software, that I have to fork over sales info to watc( a 3 minute demo video.
I like this philosophy.
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@jaredbusch said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Because I will not, ever, use a company that has such shit software, that I have to fork over sales info to watc( a 3 minute demo video.
Someone watched a video on the sales funnel and decided to add a filter right at the top.
