[luau] Linux Accounting Software

[Dustin Cross]

Aloha,

Thought I would let people know about a Linux accounting software solution
I found.  It is not open-source, but it sounds good.

Appgen® MyBooks Professional
MyBooks Professional is the ideal financial platform for any upwardly
mobile small business because it is a true high-end package for a truly low
price. This tightly integrated package of award-winning business and
accounting applications runs on Linux, Macintosh and Windows platforms
right out of the box, it can be modified to meet your changing needs, and
you can even migrate your business to traditional world class computing
platforms such as SCO Unix, AIX, and Sun Solaris when your business grows
that big or demanding, without ever having to re-enter your data or retrain
your staff .

They also have more professional financial managment software:

The Appgen® Custom Suite provides Fortune-sized management power and
productivity to small and midsize businesses. These 11 feature-rich
applications built on the Appgen Collaborative Commerce Platform are
available as economical standalone modules that can be purchased as needed.
For companies or corporations that need customized solutions and
personalized service, these Appgen Collaborative Commerce modules can be
tailored for your business by an authorized Value Added Reseller or
Appgen's Professional Services Group.  With Appgen, there is never a need
to purge data. All of your data, including archival data, remains instantly
accessible all of the time—with no system slowdown—and you can drill all
the way down to any original document from any inquiry screen at any time.
The Appgen Collaborative Commercemodules are modifiable, scalable, portable
and support both multi-user and multi-company environments. Furthermore,
they provide true integration for businesses that use multiple operating
systems.  The same powerful applications that run in a Windows, Linux, or
Mac platform can be easily upgraded to run on IBM AIX, SCO Unix, Sun
Solaris, and everything else that matters—without re-entering data or
retraining your staff.

Check it out at http://www.appgen.com

They also sell a Business-in-a-Box server with the software preinstalled on
a Toshiba's SG20 Applianceserver with Redhat.  Check it out here:
http://www.appgen.com/toshiba/toshiba.html


Later,
Dusty



> Have a look at SQL-Ledger.
>
> The following extracted from http://www.sql-ledger.com/
>
> "SQL-Ledger is a double entry accounting system. Accounting data is
> stored in a SQL Server, for the display any text or GUI browser can be
> used. The entire system is linked through a chart of accounts. Each
> item in inventory is linked to revenue, expense, inventory accounts and
> tax accounts. When you purchase and sell goods and services the
> accounts are automatically updated.
>
> With the assembly feature you can build manufactured goods from parts,
> services and assemblies. When you sell assemblies all the accounts
> linked to the individual parts, services and assemblies are updated and
> stock levels adjusted accordingly.
>
> Invoices, Packing List, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Sales and
> Purchase Order, Statements, Receipts and Checks are generated from
> templates and may be changed to suit your needs. Templates are provided
> in html and tex format. The tex templates are processed with latex to
> produce postscript and PDF documents and can be sent to a printer,
> displayed in a PDF viewer or sent out by email ...
>
> SQL-Ledger can be used on any UNIX, Mac OS X and Windows computer. The
> application is written in Perl, developed on FreeBSD and Linux with
> Galeon, Konqueror, Netscape, Lynx, Links, W3M, Voyager, Explorer to
> render the display, Apache to communicate between the server and the
> browser, and PostgreSQL or Oracle to store accounting data. "