NewsForge: Developer Begets LAMP-based Online Financial Package

“The Adams-Blake company’s Jaya123.com is home to a
cross-platform, Web-based financial system that came to be because
of one programmer’s frustration with Windows’ instability and
susceptibility to viruses.

“Jaya123 exists because Adams-Blake CEO Al Canton got tired of
trying to run his small publishing house and software business on
Windows. He was using and selling a standalone receivables program
called Pub123, while at the same time printing and marketing niche
publications like ‘The Complete Guide to Moving a Corporate Data
Center’ at $99 a pop. Canton said he was selling about 1,000 copies
a year until recently…”

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