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Only if Sage fail to recognise the quality of the software. As Mark said earlier, TAS books is far better than Line 50 in almost all areas of bookkeeping.
Apart from other comments that TAS looks safe, I would suggest software quality is rarely an indicator of these things. The Sage developer team is probably biggers, with more ports, and more employees dependant on it staying etc etc. Which of these market leaders strike you as having software quality - sendmail, BIND 8, IIS, Windows.... First mover advantage, low cost, ease of use and marketing, but quality?! Sage has had more and better marketing.... If they decide to drop a product I wouldn't bet on TAS staying, but they may well get enough revenue to continue both. One of the advantages of free software is that it allows groups with similar interests, whether quality, security or other, to easily share in software development, where a commercial relationship might be harder to forge. Imagine how hard it would have been to get SCO, HP, IBM, and SUN all developing for the the same operating system in the early 90's, now lets consider Caldera, HP, IBM and Cobalt.... ;) But free software is no guarantee that quality will win the standards battle, it does help remove one of the big obstacles. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.