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A look at Quasar Accounting

jonsmirl — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:10:26 +0000

A full version of Sybase's Linux database is free for download at:
http://www.sybase.com/linux

It's binary only but it's a free version of a database that would cost you $10,000 from Oracle or Microsoft.

Try SQL-Ledger too

NightMonkey — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:21:30 +0000

Wow, this looks to be much more comprehensive an application than Quasar. I'm not an accountant, but I like the many glowing references on the References page, and I like the conversion tools available to help users move from Quickboks and GnuCash over to SQL-Ledger. I'm looking forward to comparative articles between these two applications - hopefully done by an internationally-focused CPA.

A look at Quasar Accounting

Cato — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:58:07 +0000

For those who are curious, Quasar is mostly written in C++ and consists of about 130,000 lines of code - here is the summary from sloccount:

Totals grouped by language (dominant language first): cpp: 133021 (95.10%) sh: 6193 (4.43%) ansic: 659 (0.47%) Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 139,873 Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 35.81 (429.77) (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05)) Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) = 2.09 (25.04) (Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38)) Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 17.17 Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 4,837,959 (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40). SLOCCount is Open Source Software/Free Software, licensed under the FSF GPL. Please credit this data as "generated using 'SLOCCount' by David A. Wheeler."

Try SQL-Ledger too

rhertzog — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:38:44 +0000

I'm currently looking for an accounting software too and made many researchs.

One of the best choice available as a truly open-source project is SQL-Ledger:

http://www.sql-ledger.com/

An accounting software needs to be customized for each country because of the various laws, and it looks like SQL Ledger has enough users to be usable in many countries (it's well localized). I'm not sure that Quasar meets that point. Furthermore it's a web-based application which allows you to give access to your "auditor"... the software lacks a bit of documentation but the author sells its own documentation/support as a way to earn money.

Sql Ledger also misses the payroll feature however.

A look at Quasar Accounting

amacater — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:39:00 +0000

Quicken - Intuit have just announced they won't continue to support
Quicken in the UK after ?? date ?? and that it won't continue to be
available here. Potentially a good opportunity for GnuCash???