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TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)
TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)
Posted Jan 19, 2006 1:36 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)Parent article: TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)
Irregardless of what language they are using.. This sort of thing is something that is severely lacking in Linux. We have some apps for personal finance like GNUCash or whatnot, but no real accounting systems.
Nothing suitable for realy small to medium businesses and such. I beleive.. And this is something that can be a booming market for Linux.
We are now seeing things like TinyERP/CRM and other things like that then having a substantial accounting package to fall back on can end up being very benificial. At least that is the way it seems to me.
I could see a small business server from some company like Novel, that not only offers Email/Exchange-style functionality with file services like What you get from MS SBC, but a entire almost-turnkey store front solution with linux clients and linux servers. Do file services and email, but do store front applications, biling managment, customer relations, warehouse management, office productivity apps, and all sorts of stuff. Make a nice accounting package to keep the pencil pushers happy..
And with decent enough integration then small business could always turn to either the application designers or a software distributer for contractual support channels.
That sounds like it could offer a great deal of value for low bucks to small/medium businesses which seeem to be a very sore point for linux adoption rates lately.
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Small-business accounting software
Posted Jan 19, 2006 2:04 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]
Nothing suitable for realy small to medium businesses and such.
We've been running our business on SQL-Ledger for about 5 years now.
TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)
Posted Jan 19, 2006 13:01 UTC (Thu) by Loesje (guest, #35319) [Link]
"Irregardless of what language they are using.. This sort of thing is something that is severely lacking in Linux. We have some apps for personal finance like GNUCash or whatnot, but no real accounting systems."
I think that one of the main reasons for that is that there is no real well known RAD-application like Delphi available for Linux.
Most of the Linux/gpl fans think that the only real language is C, or they use interpreted languages like Python.
But for developing applications like this or custom-made programs as you see much in larger companies, Delphi and nowadays Visual Studio are the standard development-platforms.
As long as free software developers stick to using developing-platforms which are good, but not that RAD-friendly, software like this will remain sparse.
But there is a Delphi/Visual Studio like development platform for Linux, and that is Lazarus. But no-one knows it, since it isn't C, so it can't be good. Or they refer to some pascal-bash-stories from the eighties/seventies...
Converting this application to Lazarus is the easiest way to go, and then you'll get an application that can work on OS/X, Linux and Windows natively, without installing all sort of other stuff.
TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)
Posted Jan 20, 2006 7:25 UTC (Fri) by rqosa (guest, #24136) [Link]
> there is no real well known RAD-application like Delphi available for Linux.
TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)
Posted Jan 23, 2006 19:19 UTC (Mon) by etrusco (subscriber, #4227) [Link]
These are all nice and powerful IDEs and they have GUI designers, but IMHO they can't really compare to Delphi in terms of productiveness (I guess this is what RAD is all about, right?)
TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)
Posted Jan 26, 2006 5:11 UTC (Thu) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599) [Link]
I think that one of the main reasons for that is that there is no real well known RAD-application like Delphi available for Linux.Whatever happened to Kylix? (Hard to get much more Delphi-like than that...) Insufficient interest/heat-death of the universe/orphanware?
Greg