Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software

[Adrian Hoe <mailbox@nospam.adrianhoe.com.my>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> 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....
>>
> 
> 


Yes, market niche it is. But take accounting software for instance, it 
will require ten (10) years to be track proven (or at least 5 years). 
Gnucash has not been track proven yet, but my company (and all 
subsidiaries) are using it. Quite a nice software but it still cannot 
handle some of our financial requirement.

If we talk about payroll, situation becomes worst. Why? Every country 
has different employment policy. Even in every states of US. And to make 
things worst, employment policy changes over years if not months.

These I call them "Business Software". Because they need to evolve with 
businesses.