Hi,
On 10/14/06, krishnakant Mane researchbase@gmail.com wrote:
gentelmen, the project seams to be already up and running as far as the plans go. all that is needed is to actually start it. I saw the code of Kenneth and I feel it is really workable. and keyboard driven is not a really tough job to do.
I may be jumping in late here but since I have some experience on building accounting+inventory software for a small business, I thought I should comment.
- The points that Saswata raised are important. We need to understand the difference between a "book-keeping" software and an "accounting" software. The software pieces that Saswata mentioned are good starting points to get a full "accounting" software. Though, if the idea is to do a "book-keeping" software, then starting from scratch/untested software is feasible.
- I don't know if this helps, but I have some software (written in dotNET 1.1 using WinForms and MySQL) that we had built. I am willing to put it out into the open source and relicense it to GPL (and we can port it to mono). This was a running piece and had been implemented in one office. It was pulled out since I stopped support. Since then, its sitting there. Its complete in the sense that you can do billing, inventory, and related accounts. But its not a software that CAs may love. More like, the business owner would love. Contact me off line.
- Having run (and been part of) several small businesses in various domains, I can help with questions about how certain transactions are handled in these businesses. I have experience that I got in the above ventures. So, if I can contribute in any way (time, code, expertise) please let me know.
- I read one comment about non IT people being the target, and I also read a comment in the same post about "scripting language". For one person who actually deployed a custom accounting software in a live environment, believe me, you wouldn't want the users to be able to touch the code. Its the most dangerous thing. Actually, its scary. So please do not have this consideration. Personally, I think Java scales up pretty well. Specially with the new JVMs (Sun JDK 1.5 onwards) and the plans from Sun to open source them very soon. Also, I have seen atleast one server ( Resin - http://www.caucho.com ) that also runs php in a Java environment. It says a lot about performance.
Regards
- Navneet