On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:09:35AM -0400, Garrett Banuk wrote:
> Hello,
> I doing my college MQP now, its a large project we have to do in order to
> graduate. I was looking around for ideas and saw gnucash and thought this
> might be an interesting project to help out the linux community. I was
> wondering if anyone had ideas on some major improvements to gnucash? I was
> thinking of enhancing the small business aspect of it, maybe adding support
> to create an e-commerce site? E-commerce is the latest buzzword that people
> are looking for, and with so many people setting up their small businesses
> online, it would be good to add an extension for this to gnucash to help
> run their business. Gnucash could be the all in one way of controlling
> their finances. It could be an option so that gnucash doesn't become
> bloatware, but tell me what you think.
>
> -Garrett, http://www.wpi.edu/~mongoose/
> "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and
> leave a trail."
> -Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are wanting to take it into an ecommerce direction, I would suggest
looking at what it would take to put a web front end on the engine (java
servlet? mod_perl? php?).
This could also have implications for the data store... if you are a bank
serving up personal finances for all of your customers, do you really want
a file (or an entire directory heirarchy) per person, or would you be
better off with a real database on the backend. Surely not too many banks
are going to get too excited about administering MySQL or Postgres when
they are already employing seasoned DBA's to take care of their highly
redundant Oracle installations. Perhaps coming up with a storage plugin
system that would allow for anything between Sleepycat's DB and Oracle.
Mike
