Thanks for the link, Seth.  I checked out the noguska software, and it 
looks interesting.  Here are my first impressions, after only testing it
for about 15 minutes:

-For those of us on a slow wire, the download is only 3,178,313 bytes.
-It's licensed primarily under GPL.
-The interface uses javascript intensively.
-The underlying program is mainly php.
-The program aims to use any sql database, mysql by default.
-The setup is fairly easy if you are used to php/mysql.
-It's designed for windows users: the javascript breaks in Netscape,
 Konqueror, and Mozilla.  (Others have already complained about this 
 on their mailing lists.)
-Even the documentation is mostly in ".doc" files, which I was not
 able to open with Word, but was readable with StarOffice.
-There are about 120 tables created on a skeleton install.  The tables
 appear to be reasonably well thought out at first glance.
-It appears to have some kind of estimate/quoting system as well as
 the other core programs.
-The program actually works. I was able to quickly add accounts,
 create journal entries, and print a (rather ugly) balance sheet.

I think it's great to see something like this in php.  It would be
relatively easy to extend this product to create additional reports,
although it doesn't appear to have a report editor like some other
packages.

For someone looking at this type of product, I'd also check out one
called sql-ledger, which I think is on sourceforge.

Ralph 

At 03:03 PM 10/10/2001 -0700, "Seth Cohn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Other cool software: NOLA, a webbased complete
>accounting/bookkeeping/inventory/payroll program.  http://nola.noguska.com/
>
>Seth

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