I agree with the GNUCash thing, It was the first thing to come to
my mind when he asked tho :-(

You recommend NOLA, but it runs off of MySQL. Yet MySQL is not suited
for accounting?

I think the bottom line is this: There are quite a few folks out there
looking for accounting packages to run on *nix. there are some apps that
I have plans on tweaking, thus having some clean code sure makes life easier.
However, there are some folks (incliuding myself on this one) that just want
to use the software and not bother to tweak it. For instance, I was looking
for a CRM package for a client; I found 'Relata'. Nothing fancy, but it works.
I have made some minor tweaks to it, and the db, but all in all,they run
it as is. I'd like to find an equivalent accounting package.
Web driven, sql based (postgres or mysql), and something I can make minor
tweaks on.

I'll take another look at NOLA in the meantime.

v/r
Mike


On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 02:50:22PM -0500, Derek Neighbors wrote:
 I will speak from lots of experience being a developer in this space both 
 professionally and in free software.
 
 > Two come to mind:
 > GNUCash
 
 GNUCash is not for business accounting.  Further more it is local file 
 database (not good for business computing), yes I realize they have a 
 Postgres version, but its far from stable.
 
 They are working on some small business features but will be more on par 
 with Quickbooks(which IMHO is a horrible business accounting package for 
 many reasons) than a PeachTree
 
 > Sql Ledger
 
 SQL Ledger showed lots of promise in many ways until you look at its code 
 and guts, last I checked you couldnt even reconcile bank accounts.  If you 
 are willing to go web accounting.  NOLA from Noguska is much cleaner.
 
 > and perhaps GNUEnterpise > 
 
 I think (biased) that we have the best promise in that we are a Framework 
 much like SAP which offers true flexibility, but we dont have a shrink 
 wrap accounting pak as of today
 
 Compiere is another nice package, that is polished but currently requires 
 an Oracle database (pricey) and is under a weak copyleft license (MPL)
 
 
  > Personally, I am begining to take a look 
 at Sql Ledger > (www.sql-ledger.org), problem is I'm an ole MySQL guy and
 > need to learn more 'bout PostgreSQL
 
 MySQL is not suited for business accounting in any way shape or form for 
 many reasons (its a great database for many things, but this aint one of 
 them)  I strongly suggest you look at NOLA and give it an evaluation along 
 with SQLLedger before making the jump, you will find it worth your time.
 
 Derek Neighbors
 GNU Enterprise
 http://www.gnuenterprise.org
 derek@gnue.org
 
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