Ending months of rumors, Hewlett-Packard appears to have released its first mass-market PC with pre-installed Linux. Specifically, the company will soon be selling RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) Desktop 5 on its HP dx2250 PC to Australian customers. HP, long a staunch Linux supporter both on the desktop and the server, had never offered a pre-loaded desktop Linux. There have, however, been many rumors in recent months that HP was on the verge of announcing a business Linux desktop with SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10 SP 1, Ubuntu 7.04, or RHEL Desktop 5, or its delayed desktop Linux brother, Red Hat Global Desktop.
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Member since:2006-10-28
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_accounting_software
Does any of this do what you need?
Member since:2005-07-24
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No. Unfortunately not. That comparison does not even include the big players. It's one of those wikipedia pages, on a subject I know something about, that makes me wonder about the other pages where I trust it on topics with which I am less familiar.
Believe me. If we had FOSS accounting and/or POS software that was not pathetic, I would not be working for a company that distributes proprietary accounting, pos, and manufacturing accounting software. Or at the very least, I'd be in a position to shame my current employer a hell of a lot more.
Member since:2005-07-24
Someone modded my post down one. That's OK. So please do not take *this* as a reaction to *that*.
But... speaking as an employee of a company that sells and supports business accounting software... please either cough up a business-class solution or pull your head out of the sand. The Ostrich strategy does not do this community any good.
I'd love to spend my time supporting something I believe in, with people who share my enthusiasm about what it is we are doing... rather than spending my time supporting something I believe in (I slip FOSS in where I can), working with people who just go where the money is. And in business accounting, the money is in closed source software. I can't even propose a capable FOSS alternative to lure the younger, more rebellious folks into my camp.
Help!!! ;-)
Member since:2006-01-28
I disagree for basic stuff Gnucash and Kmymoney more than do the job. For intermediate stuff, Quasar, Moneydance, SQL-Ledger are pretty good.
For more advanced record-keeping with some ERP mixed in, you have lots of stuff: Compiere, OpenBravo, Abanq,
http://abanq.org/
http://www.openbravo.com/
And if you go to the high end, Oracle, Peoplesoft, SAP are all happy to take your money.
A wider collection of links to accounting software:
http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html
Member since:
2005-07-24
Actually, the lack of FOSS business accounting software is a big, ugly hole in our stack. Not everyone is an accountant. But most people have a job. Working for a company. And that company need to do payroll, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and general ledger... at minimum.
And we have nothing to offer.