Don't forget the Quasar system. [LWN.net]

Don't forget the Quasar system.

Posted Jan 19, 2006 2:27 UTC (Thu) by csawtell (subscriber, #986)
Parent article: TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)

<quote='http://librenix.com/?inode=2793'>
The key word in this discussion is business. Quasar Accounting is a
business accounting package that offers all the standard features that you
would expect. The base package includes a general ledger module, accounts
payable, accounts receivable, sales, purchases, customer quotes, invoice
printing, check printing, international currency support, financial
statement report generation, and more. Additional modules are available to
expand Quasar's basic offering, such as inventory control and management,
handheld support, and multi-store point-of-sale systems.
</quote>

My comment: It's comprehensive and relatively complex, far too much so for
the average small business. As far as I can tell LinuxCanada who produced
it have not really 'got it' when it come to FLOSS. While there are some
email lists run out of LinuxCanada's web site, there is neither a #quasar
channel on freenode, nor a web-forum, any way I have yet to find it.
Gentoo have yet to pick it up for their Portage system. After all that's
said, it looks to me as if this would be a very good solution for a
trading company with a turnover in the low millions in a complicated GST
tax environment.

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Don't forget the Quasar system.

Posted Jan 19, 2006 13:47 UTC (Thu) by whitemice (guest, #3748) [Link]

>As far as I can tell LinuxCanada who produced
>it have not really 'got it' when it come to FLOSS. While there are
> some email lists run out of LinuxCanada's web site, there is neither
> a #quasar channel on freenode, nor a web-forum, any way I have yet to
> find it. Gentoo have yet to pick it up for their Portage system

!^@&%()@! I can't help but respond to this. Are you serious?? This is a business oriented package and you are complaining about (a) no free-node channel and (c) no Gentoo support?

(A) Professional Sys-Admins don't do support over IRC, I've met maybe 1 in my 12+ years.
(B) Businesses don't run Gentoo, Professional Sys-Admins stick with the core/mainstream stuff for core services [Oh boy, I can here the flame throwers spinning up now... but sorry guys, sometimes the truth hurts]

I'd love to see a serious review of LinuxCanada's offerings, one that includes a licensed/certified accountant. Unfortunately you are correct on the point that this package doesn't seem to have build up any steam (but neither a or b are significant contributors to that).

Don't forget the Quasar system.

Posted Jan 19, 2006 23:35 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

> (B) Businesses don't run Gentoo, Professional
> Sys-Admins stick with the core/mainstream
> stuff for core services

Actually it seems that some sysadmins do run Gentoo. You can find similar packages there. If a package is not there this is one indication for it not having a decent users community.

BTW: no trace for anything called "quasar" on Debian.