[Klug-general] Administration software for schools

[Stuart Brand]

I meant don't use the word Crevice :)

at the end of the day there is always choice(red pill or blue pill?),  
the problem doesn't come from the price but rather what people know,  
and this is where the circle starts, people start to know a product  
and it gets used, the more its used the more popular it becomes, once  
it's de jure, I'm think mainly software, people go against it because  
it will never meet up to everyones likes and sometimes the most used  
products are chargeable

so easy answer, if you don't want to pay for upgrades and add ons or  
have it meet up to the majority of users expectations in the future  
then don't use software that you have to pay for, but then if know one  
ever pays for software how will programmers make money?

Stuart


On 21 Jan 2009, at 01:33, George Prowse wrote:

> Stuart Brand wrote:
>> Well there's a simple answer that, don't use it :)
>
> I think that was the whole point of his response - they *have* to.  
> It is
> no different to any other industry with things like Sage, Word, Excel
> and IIS all being forced upon people as an expensive and often  
> inferior
> industry standard.
>
> Take my girlfriend who is a vet from New Zealand, most clinics use
> something like "vetcare" or something for their patient records and
> detailed database but her current job decided they didn't want to pay
> the exorbitant price so they created their own. The only problem is  
> that
> when new or locum surgeons come they have difficulty understanding  
> it at
> first.
>
> George
>
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