TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)

TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)

Posted Jan 19, 2006 0:29 UTC (Thu) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
Parent article: TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)

The existing implementation depends on several separate proprietary
products which are unavailable on a free system: Windows, Delphi and the
Borland database backend. Moving to a fully-free implementation would
mean rewriting most of the software from scratch, whether or not the
development language remained Pascal:

"Which is why Copeman would be happy to outsource the initial development
work, if he can find a suitable partner."

The initial development work has already been done! It would be easy to
'embrace and extend' (in a good way :-) one of the existing free
accounting packages. I wonder if this has been considered? Working with
an existing free codebase and developer community (or forking an existing
program if the community is not compatible) might be more of a plunge
than merely switching OS, but why not?

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