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Re: Thanks :)
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 26/Feb/2008, @13:42

Hi Sebastian, it's humbling to get praise from one of my favorite KDE developers and one of the few who really gets what I want to do. I look foward to seeing you again and working together with our ideas and projects in KDE4.

The application I'm building is for my business (http://kittyhooch.com) entails more than just sales. There is an agricultural aspect, but most management comes in with manufacturing, resource and inventory management. That includes between 50 and 100 products currently, and with component cat furniture it means hundreds of components to track every resource and action on. Then there is online sales, telephone orders and shipping, plus the wholesale sales management package... That involves a prospect calling database with planning, tracking and logging tools. All of this ties together with mutliple servers and users on the internet, local net and and sneaker net to synchronize data and make it appear monolithic. Barcode management is next with sales recording becoming automatic at our store and events. Eventually we integrate inventory of colors and materials into our online order process.

All in all it's a pretty insane endeavor, but without these tools I'd never have the resources to grow beyond a small mom and pop craft business. There's no way I'd try to code all this in C++ and there is no boxed software out there that is fully compliant to my needs. I want the fastest most capable tool that allows me to focus on the task, where I'm not thinking about a dynamic cast of a pointer, but if this then that. I just hope more people see what they can do and realize their ambitions with our software.

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Re: Thanks :)
by Sebastian Sauer on Tuesday 26/Feb/2008, @18:13

Very impressing. I've to add that I just didn't expect that Kommander is already in such a stable, polished and feature-complete state. So, all a matter of time till more ppl realize what great things can be done. Guess the usual "but I can't code" argument is rendered invalid from at least today onwards :-)

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