Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software

[David Holm <david@realityrift.com>]

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Another issue I see is that even though it would be a great idea to write this in Ada (I'm
thinking of stability here), there will be problems finding programmers who are able to work
on it. One way of making it easier for people to help the project might be to write the backend
in Ada with a module loader (dlopen/dlsym/dlclose would d othe trick). That way people can
contribute to the project without knowing Ada and the backend can still be kept solid. By using
some database system like berkley db for universal datastorage (by all modules) and implementing
a recovery system in the backend you should be able to have a solid system even though it will
be tainted by other languages.

//David Holm

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:11:23 GMT
"Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net> wrote:

> Well I did a commercial Payroll system in my career...I know accounting,
> inventory management, and just about everything in between, I've dont a lot
> of industry specific application development.  and I'm thinking of doign an
> OpenSource project :-)....that message on the group made me realize how much
> it was lacking, but I agree, we need to replace such things as MYOB
> Accounting or atleast have an equivalent of.  We need business management
> software, stats and probabilities, trend analysis, financial advisory tools,
> and everything else that can be used in a business.  so I'm game.  Also done
> a Point of Sale commercial application which integrated accounting behind
> the scene.
> 
> He is right, as much as we do need the people who are updating the kernel,
> coming up with server apps, programming languages sure that's all good.  But
> I think we equally need business quality solutions.  and that does
> lack....think about it, a lot of databases are available for Linux, but what
> applications make very good use of these databases?  if not by us, by
> someone else, but that field does need to get covered.  In my book :-)...
> 
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