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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,3cd3b8571c28b75f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-30 04:09:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Stephane Richard" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3F44BC65.4020203@noplace.com> <3F460D73.7090801@noplace.com> <3f503d49$1_2@news.tm.net.my> Subject: Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:09:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.149.82.227 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1062241757 141.149.82.227 (Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:09:17 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:09:17 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41973 Date: 2003-08-30T11:09:17+00:00 List-Id: 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?) :-)... -- St�phane Richard Senior Software and Technology Supervisor http://www.totalweb-inc.com For all your hosting and related needs "Adrian Hoe" wrote in message news:3f503d49$1_2@news.tm.net.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. >