Re: OT : Paging that lot wot know Computers.

I find it hard to believe that it's either not available to recompile or not available for any other platform other than x86.

Senior store management, to be precise.

Ahhh, you're the kind of bloke who comes to fix our IT at work. So I was pretty much spot on with the 'trained monkey' comments earlier in the thread.

It was built by an external development company before my time.

Almost sounds impressive...it's still in a shop.

No I'm the kind of guy that comes to an empty building, takes a note of your company mission, what you need from IT, then plans, implements and supports the project from start to finish.

Trained monkey springs to mind again. They're the only kind of people who use words like 'company mission' - admit it, you got that from a book, didn't you?

Only a f****it would use proprietory network admin tools to support a large client base like that.

I can understand it when a large national company wants an off the shelf solution, but when you're supporting lots of clients within lots of different industries, then you want something open source and platform independent so you can't be shafted by a single software company pulling support or forcing upgrades.

Retail management pays better than being a second line droid.

Exactly. Any decent software there is on the Mac there is probably 4 choices of on the pc.

Fraser