One of my jobs during high school was working for an engineering firmed turned accounting software house. Nobody bought their engineering software, but their in-house accounting apps turned into best sellers. Since GL/AP/AR is hardly anything new it made me wonder what happened and it seems like most of the competitors were bought or went under. Sure enough PeachTree which was #1 in the late 80s has renamed itself and gone cloud subscription.
There's always GNU Cash I guess, although I haven't heard good things from my one friend who tried it.
How are bios and firmware updates for supermicro? Are they open to the public or require a support contract. Speaking from personal experience even though HPE is cheap, you really don't want to buy it for home use due to license constraints. I hear Dell leaves their updates available on the web, and am curious if Supermicro does as well. This is critical because of regularly discovered CVEs.
As well it should. It's rare for me to defend Microsoft anything, but in this case I will. MS authenticator happily backs itself up to the cloud if you let it. Whether you consider that good or just another attack vector is up to you, but keep in mind if you switch phones, you'll be setting up TOTP again for every service in Google authenticator.
>Dell is also acting corporately weird by the way.
My employer offers a modest Dell discount via an Employee Purchase Program. (EPP). You can order the 9310 with 16 or 32 gigs of memory through the EPP with Windows, but if want one with 32 gigs of memory and Linux, you have to engage their small business group and ask for a quote. Exact same machine in every way, just more memory. As I understand the memory is now soldered on the 9310 it's worth paying up front to get maximum, but I've read the storage is still upgradeable.
So Dell still thinks only businesses use 32GB of memory with Linux and for that matter Linux developers only want 13" screens. Both assumptions are (IMHO) obviously false, but there's that corporate weirdness for you.
If anyone from Dell is reading this please expand your Linux offerings to your larger laptops, preferably ones with bigger batteries and discrete GPU options. Not every developer on the planet wants an Intel-based macbook air clone, particularly when a) Iris XE GPUs benchmark slower than the current M1 GPU (which is about to get refreshed), and b) the i7-11{6,8}5G7 CPUs support 64 GB of memory. Stop crippling laptop features to fluff up your battery life numbers.
There's always GNU Cash I guess, although I haven't heard good things from my one friend who tried it.