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To: combjelly who wrote (462803)	3/10/2009 9:58:13 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1588131

>> Quickbooks is the notable exception. It runs, It is a good day when QB runs under Windows at all, these days. We're still on QB99 in our office. This was before the bloat arrived in full force. But, with things like Rails, I see a lot of business apps becoming web apps. If I had a client who was developing their own applications with a database package, I'd strongly recommend they use something like Rails. Define your database fields and load them in your SQL database, run the code generator and you have a simple app where you can enter and edit data and generate simple reports. Yeah, the guy I talked to who was developing with it was sold on it. I may have to check it out if I ever get around to doing any development again.