There's a little game I like to play whenever Macworld.com posts a news article or review of MYOB's AccountEdge--guess how many comments it will take in the Macworld.com forums before one of our aggrieved neighbors to the north takes MYOB to task for not having a Canadian version of its small business accounting software.
Wondering when AccountEdge returns to Canada? The hockey puck tells all.MYOB US must hear that comment a lot, too. Because at the business software maker's Macworld Expo booth in the South Hall at Moscone Center, representatives of the company had a gift for any passersby who happened to inquire about a Canadian product--a hockey puck announcing AccountEdge's return to Canada.
AccountEdge's return to north of the 49th parallel became possible after Acclivity bought MYOB US--along with its Mac and PC development teams--from the Australian-based MYOB Ltd. in November. Acclivity had been the U.S. distributor of AccountEdge prior to the purchase.
Typically, an AccountEdge update for the U.S. product arrives in the fall--AccountEdge 2009 debuted in mid-November, for example. But Canadians won't have to bide their time waiting for a U.S. update so that the software can return to their home and native land.
"There will a 2009 Canadian release before the next AccountEdge product," Acclivity managing partner Tom Nash told me on the Expo show floor Wednesday.
And I've got the hockey puck to prove it.
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