On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> i'm sick of this VisualBasic wanna be SQL closed source crap!
You and the rest of the world.... :-)
> I am going to code a billing program for X if it kills me...
You might want to consider a web-based interface instead. A web-based
interface has the advantage of portability... you can run it anywhere. Even
Windoze machines. :-)
> probably using mysql or some other open source DB.
For a billing system, I think PostgreSQL might be the better choice. MySQL
is optimized for speed first, everything else second, and thus deliberately
excludes many features. PostgreSQL, OTOH, aims to implement as much of the
SQL spec as possible.
(Of course, I've never actually *used* either of these in a production
environment; I'm only parroting what I've heard.)
> i'd like to get help with this task ...
SourceForge (http://www.sourceforge.net) appears to be the site of choice
for such projects. In fact, a quick search for "billing" turns up *several*
similar projects already in progress there. I'm sure they'd love the help.
A similar quick search at http://freshmeat.net also turned up some matches.
You might look there for a project to assist/enhance/adopt.
HTH,
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