On Thursday 08 April 2004 09:40, Don Gould wrote:
> Thanks for your efforts Christipher,
>
> The dos based system that I've been asked to look at was written in
> reverlation.
>
> At first glance it looks like no one's ever done any reindexing (hummm....
> 'buy faster hardware').
>
> I've gained agreement to get linux into the business...
>
> Now I'm just planning/researching what I might recommend next.
>
> Have you used either of these to products?
I had a fairly extensive 'play', as opposed to 'use', with Freemoney a long 
time ago, and can report that it worked as it claimed. It appears to have 
changed extensively since then. At that stage it obviously had considerable 
potential. From the mail list to which I subscribed at the time I gathered 
that it was used for real fairly widely in Eastern Europe. The project leader 
at the time seem to be much better at the 'ra-ra' than code production. He 
then got a job, and Freemoney fell into a suspend mode for a while. It then 
got picked up by this Dane who has brought it back to life. It appears that 
one of the things he has done is to make the aesthetics of the reporting and 
invoice paper-work really quite attractive.

> Do you happen to know if there are any accountants in NZ supporting them?
No.

> Do you happen to know if data can be exported to myob?
Postgresql can export any table as a CSV file.

I know nothing about the linuxcanada product apart from the fact it exists and 
from the publicity material looks as if it might be quite a good thing. One 
advantage is that the implementation of GST in Canada is virtually the same  
as it is in NZ. I don't think it's a fully GPL Free Software project.

About a year or so ago there was mention on this list that a suit of COBOL 
programs written here in NZ was about to be GPL'ed. The thread then went 
silent. Anybody know what happened?


-- 
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell

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