[Gambas-user] Financial program

[Werner]

On 14/12/09 23:32, Kari Laine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have already done little billing program for my parents little firm.
> It was a learning exercise. It would make a big help to get little
> companies to move to Linux if there was a financial program that run
> on Linux and would be free. There comes in Gambas.
>
> Is there already an GPLed financial program made with Gambas?
> If not is someone having different parts of a system willing to donate
> source code under GPL?
>
> My billing program is so horrible that in it's condition I don't want
> to show it's sources to anyone... it was my first Gambas program...
>
> Why Gambas would be extra value for this kind of a project.? Gambas is
> easy language and integrated editor makes it very easy to implement
> user interface. Speed and other things which are good in C or C++ are
> not so important. Naturally someone says Python would be way to go but
> I find it more difficult than Gambas. Idea is that regular Joe with
> little experimenting could change the program.
>
> Best Regards
> Kari
>
>   
There is Quasar from Linux Canada. It is very similar to MYOB. Their
last GPL version is 1.4.7, I think. After that they went sort of
proprietary(Note1) but the documentation of how to hook into the new
version database is exemplary. We use 1.4.7, mostly the inventory
control part which is excellent. In this version the reporting bits are
suboptimal but the rest is fine.
We use  it since around 2002, using mostly the inventory control part.
The mailing list support is excellent. I had studied their source code.
It is extremely well written, I learned a lot from it.

If you think you can write a decent accounting program in 3 man months
you don't know what the task is.
If you think you can write a decent accounting program in 3 man years
you may have something fairly basic to show but only if you got your
priorities right.
Accounting programs are very much underestimated.

You might just want to hook into what's there and be efficient. The
interface is well documented.

Regards

Werner

Note 1: If I recall it properly it was after someone claimed their
software was actually his