Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software

["Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net>]

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Agreed, I've worked on a payroll program (for canada) (in visual basic 1.0
professional for DOS no less I can still feel the pain...hehe) and every
year rates changes, salary margins change, everything changes...and then
when income tax arrives everything seems to change again :-)....it's not
impossible to do, but it is an evolving software....however since payroll is
usually targetted at accoutants, they'll know what to do with it, all we
need is to provide a way for them to update these evolutionary
changes....maybe a grid of salary margins to tax rates is all they need
since they are usually displayed as a table on the official forms.  then
anyone can follow the dotted lines so to speak...and enter margins and rates
the same way...Obviously, these rates/margins changes need to be saved for
future reference and calculations...

But that's one margin...I assume GNUCash is a opensource version of a POS
software?  (point of sale) with integrated accounting?   (or should I shut
up rigth now and google on it first so it looks like I know what I'm
saying?) :-)...


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"Adrian Hoe" <mailbox@nospam.adrianhoe.com.my> wrote in message
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> 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.
>