From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3cd3b8571c28b75f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-22 05:32:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F460D73.7090801@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software References: <3F44BC65.4020203@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:32:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.23.197 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1061555578 209.165.23.197 (Fri, 22 Aug 2003 08:32:58 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 08:32:58 EDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41783 Date: 2003-08-22T12:32:58+00:00 List-Id: That's why I suggested it as an opportunity to establish some major market sector as belonging to Ada. An open source accounting system - with add-ons for things like payroll, inventory, etc., would be a market niche that is not adequately addressed in the Linux/Open Source world. All you've got to do is figure out how to make it pay so its worth someone's time to do the development. MDC Stephane Richard wrote: > Food for Though indeed. :-)....he's not wrong...as in orientation > wise....there's plenty of people working on the servers/datbases/programming > languages etc etc....there's OpenOffice which is a good start for the > business world....but as far as payroll, inventory control, acounting, > receivables etc etc...aint much done in those fields as far as open source > goes.... > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================