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Heres a link to a radio show that reviewed Suse 9.1 on the air and had Charlie Ungarshick (Director Of Marketing on as a guest. SuSE Review on the Radio

If you are willing to move your accounting over to a webapp, check out NOLA. It uses PHP and MySQL and is free and GPLed. I looked at it a few months ago and it seemed promising, I need to grab the current code and see how it looks now...

I'm very interested in this subject, also. Here are some links:

SQL Ledger Accounting

Hansa Business Solutions

Compiere

Cheap & easy business accounting with Linux

Nola

STFB

Open source Java projects for business and accounting. But... Is Java slow and with non-standard GUIs? A prisoner of Sun politics?

Open Systems Accounting Software

GNU Cash. Impressive.

Slashdot discussed personal finance packages. Thoughts: Where does "personal finance" end and business finance begin? Wouldn't it be better just to have one package for all accounting, so that you didn't have to learn more than one? But business accounting software has been difficult to use. Accounting software requires much more learning than word processing software. Learning more than one may reduce the quality of your life, not raise it.

After all that, it's a decent inventory management/accounting package, perhaps some decent MRP/ERP functionality.

GNU Enterprise and NOLA are going to hopefully get there at some point in the future.

GNUe is porting NOLA to its platform, and should be pretty slick. (I've been working on that some, but not much recently..... need to get back to it!)

I read about NOLA when the press release came out. It looked pretty good.

We're an small company making extensive use of open source software and recently settled (after an exhaustive morning searching freshmeat) on NOLA by Noguska Software.

It's Apache/PHP/MySQL-based and a very comprehensive solution (according to our normally-Windows-using CFO). It has a simple interface, and covers accounting, inventory, point of sale, contact management, billing, puchasing, and reporting.

It's also completely GPL'ed. Check it out - it rocks!

NOLA (http://nola.noguska.com/) is a GPL'd web based business accounting/inventory system built on PHP and MySQL, and should support other db's with only minor porting.
Disclaimer: I work for them.

Funny, I just had one of my clients want to test this out, so he gave me one of his servers to set this up on. He wanted me to install both SQL-Ledger and NOLA. Preliminary results as far as a sysadmin is concerned:

SQL-Ledger: Rocks. VERY easy to set up, documentation is complete, and from what my client tells me, theres more modules available than most of the commercial stuff he's looked at. Its running on a Debian Potato system, and almost everything is stock (read: stable). All I added was a source install of pgsql, and added the couple of Perl modules via the CPAN perl shell. I think I had the entire thing runnin in less than an hour, from poppin in the 2.2r4 cd to firing up Moz on my other box.

NOLA: An absolute bitch to set up. Not only does all the documentation end in .doc (with .pdf's on the web...no text/html that I could find), but its EXTREMELY incomplete. It doesnt say what needs to be compiled with PHP (thats my biggest complaint - took me about 6 recompiles to figure out wtf it wanted in PHP). It dynamically generates most of its buttons via libgd, and they dont even look that good. Its got a lot of wizbang stuff, but they haven't worked on the actual use of it much. Not to mention it suggests using the absolute latest libs for things. I'd rather a production system not rely on the bleeding edge. I suggest staying away from it for a while till it matures.

Welp, there's my $0.02. Like I said..I'm the admin who's settin it all up...I haven't really used either of them, but a lot of times you can tell how good of a project it is by how easy it is to set up (ie: how good the documentation is).