On Monday 25 January 2010 12:54:41 pm David Kaiser wrote: > Hopefully, also on that list were also:
> ) Open-source implementation > ) Runs on Linux operating system, uses open-source storage such as MySQL Good points... Since it either must run on the 'net or or have a section that runs on the 'net, and since our office runs on Linux, definitely on Linux. And most likely running MySQL. But as far as that "open-source implementation", that's actually very problematic. It's unlikely that any open-source billing system will meet the new requirements for certification for Visa/MasterCard, etc. (huge fees for certification from all the certification providers). The problem is that if I write my own package I have a small enough cash-flow through cards that I can self-certify, but any publisher of an open-source system has to certify based on whatever cash flow their aggregate userbase uses. At least that's what my attorney thinks. We'd love to use open source, but we need an answer for that. My attorney says don't risk it; the fines are too high. If any of you have experience in this, or know better, please post. For what it's worth, there's no package, commercial or open source, that does what we need/want, so we may end up building it ourselves. Thanks! Jeff -- Jeff Lasman Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
