What Does 2004 Hold in Store for Linux? (LinuxWorld) [LWN.net]

LinuxWorld asks others to predict what 2004 holds for Linux and has responses from Eric Raymond and John Terpstra. "I predict that during 2004 at least one significant USA government body will adopt Linux on the desktop. This adoption will make head-lines and will radically change the face of the Linux battle. We will see a number of government bodies adopt Linux, and by September 2004 there will be a rush of announcements of software applications finally being ported to Linux. At least two major accounting packages will announce support for Linux. PS: I could name one, but that would spoil the fun!" (John Terpstra)

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What Does 2004 Hold in Store for Linux? (LinuxWorld)

Posted Nov 21, 2003 23:14 UTC (Fri) by arc (guest, #17097) [Link]

Argh. Please say what accounting package! I'm looking to get a new accounting system for my business and the only major commercial system that seems to run on Linux is ACCPAC. ACCPAC might be okay -- still evaluating -- but some choices (particularly one that also supported PostgreSQL) would be nice.

What Does 2004 Hold in Store for Linux? (LinuxWorld)

Posted Nov 22, 2003 16:51 UTC (Sat) by gervin23 (guest, #13977) [Link]

I would love to know as well. Although, i assume they're referring to desktop accounting packages (i.e. quickbooks).

I agree, Accpac's only two storage options are pretty lame. DB2 is bloated, slow, java blah. pervasive is a strange dinosaur which won't be around long with mysql/postresql being more extensible not to mention zippier.

What Does 2004 Hold in Store for Linux? (LinuxWorld)

Posted Nov 23, 2003 15:01 UTC (Sun) by hipcat7173 (guest, #12301) [Link]

Try SQL-Ledger: <http://www.sql-ledger.org>

uses postgresql, perl & apache - I've been using it for a few months & it seems to work ok. You may need to do a bit of LaTeX hacking for your forms though...

What Does 2004 Hold in Store for Linux? (LinuxWorld)

Posted Dec 5, 2003 23:15 UTC (Fri) by barrygould (guest, #4774) [Link]

There is one that ran on Xenix which, I believe, has had a linux version for a few years.

Sorry, I don't remember the name, but it was serial (text) terminal-based.

What Does 2004 Hold in Store for Linux? (LinuxWorld)

Posted Nov 27, 2003 18:09 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

Isn't there already a major accounting package running on Linux: SAP?

/me ducks and looks around for his asbesto underwear... ;-)

Joachim