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Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem

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From: David Kaye
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:04
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John Higdon <higgy@kome.com> wrote:

>Linux is not ready for prime time? It is everywhere, from the largest 
>corporations to the smallest Ma and Pa businesses. [....]

Ma and Pa businesses?  Shirley, you jest.  Nearly all such businesses use 
QuickBooks, a software package not available in Linux.  The most QB will do is 
sell you an app to allow user files to be served on a Linux server, but the QB 
package itself must be run on Windows, or MacOS OS X v10.5.7 or later.  

Last I checked, not even Peachtree was available for Linux (or for Mac, 
either).  You're not going to tell me that Ma & Pa businesses are going to use 
some kludgy open source accounting package?  I deal with these businesses 
every day.  They use QB almost exclusively.  

Stick to broadcasting.  At least you know that area...
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From: sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com (David Kaye)
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Subject: Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem
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