Coming soon: gnucash 1.8 [LWN.net]

Coming soon: gnucash 1.8

Posted Dec 5, 2002 9:24 UTC (Thu) by zitran (guest, #5254)
Parent article: Coming soon: gnucash 1.8

To your question:

"LWN is currently looking for a Linux-based accounting package
(suggestions, anybody?)"

Have a look at sql-ledger.org. This one is written in perl and a lot
seems to be going on here. Current version is 1.8.7 but 2.0 is scheduled
for release in mid December.

sql-ledger is browser operated, features multiple user support with
individual rights and is based on PostgreSQL, with options for Oracle
available and DB2 in the "tube".

The program has been localised to quite a few languages and countries. We
are ourselves just installing it for production use and have added a few
things to it as well (Finnish localisation with DES-crypted bank
connection, Finnish standard chart of accounts as well as P&L and Balance
statements according to Finnish accounting legislation (these are quite
structured)

The feature I miss most is payroll, which I hope will start developing
soon.

Best rgds

Paul Saris

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Coming soon: gnucash 1.8

Posted Dec 12, 2002 7:46 UTC (Thu) by Kluge (guest, #2881) [Link]

I don't know anything about business accounting, but the people at Linuxworld (www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0225.xterminal13.html, www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0311.xterminal14.html) seem to think that NOLA (nola.noguska.com) is good enough to consider for their own use.

Coming soon: gnucash 1.8

Posted Dec 12, 2002 18:13 UTC (Thu) by joib (guest, #8541) [Link]

In addition to sql-ledger (which is quite nice) there is also compiere (www.compiere.org). It is based on java, and unfortunately requires oracle. But they're working on a postgresql port, due 1H2003.

Compiere is more like a full-fledged erp application, it includes lots of stuff besides accounting.

Then there's also gnu enterprise (www.gnue.org), which is more like an appserver+form builder etc, but they plan to include an accounting package eventually.

Coming soon: gnucash 1.8

Posted Dec 17, 2002 21:11 UTC (Tue) by palin (guest, #8654) [Link]

SQL-Ledger 2.0 is already out.