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 Cutting Costs with a Scalpel, Not a Chainsaw
Extreme cutting of people and projects can be avoided, or at the very least, they can be performed with more intelligent precision. All that are required to handle such problems the right way are per-customer per-project profitability metrics. Understanding costs is the first step towards understanding profitability. Most managers know how profitable the company is in general, but few of them know how profitable it is on a per-product or per-customer basis.
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 No accounting software for Linux?
The following article sets out to disprove 3 primary notions: 1) that there aren't any good, open source, accounting solutions; 2) open source in general has a dearth of good applications; and, 3) vendors don’t port to Linux because there is no money in it. Whether you agree or disagree with Mr. Murphy’s article he makes some interesting points and lays out his case in a clear concise manner. However, from the reader feedback the debate is clearly still undecided and there are strong opinions on both sides of the table.
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