Egyptian companies have long relied on proprietary software to get their work done. There are many reasons for this, mainly lack of knowledge & unawareness of the Free/Open Source alternatives, especially Linux. Most business owners/managers simply don't trust free (as in beer) software. "How would a free O/S have the quality of windows ??" is a popular question. Almost everyone has some kind of windows experience, which makes them feel assured that it will be easy to get technical support.
Well, what about showing a real Egyptian business which relies solely on FOSS (Free, Open Source Software) ?? That's exactly what we've done. We, 3 members of EGLUG, interviewed Mr. Omar BayehElDin. Mr. Omar is the owner of Abou Youssef company, which works in *** clothes. He's been running solely on Linux & free software for years, and he's quite satisfied. He forgot all about crashes, viruses & has saved alot of money ever since.
We are: Ahmed El Sherbiny (ShErbO) Sherif Nagy (DarKnesS_WolF) Ahmed El-Mekkawy (linuxawy)
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rtf ... sql ledger
A question and a correction..
correction -- RTF is not a proprietery format.
question -- Where is the work on Arabizing SQL Ledger and why is it not found in the mainstream distribution?
Mohammed Elzubeir
Arabic is already in SQL Ledger
Dear ElZubeir,
As I understand it, the arabization of SQL Ledger and the Egyptian chart of accounts are already in the base SQL Ledger.
Khalid Baheyeldin (Omar's brother).
(Note to article author: please correct Omar's last name, it is BaheyEldin)
It's impressive that they
It's impressive that they can run on GNU/Linux alone, but I guess anything's possible if you try hard enough. What other type of training has the company have? Go to any accounting seminar, human resources presentations, etc?