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There are several accounting solutions out there, just a quick search found:
http://www.gnucash.org/
http://turbocash.net/
http://frontaccounting.com/wb3...
http://www.sql-ledger.com/
http://ledgersmb.org/

Her is a list of replacements for AutoCAD:
http://blog.cometdocs.com/10-g...

Besides GIMP there is Krita and Cinepaint, and GIMPshop provides a Photoshop like interface. GIMP does have plugins if one needs CMYK. Inkscape does Vector Graphics. Scribus is more of a replacement for Illustrator.

There were some lack of features years ago. The options have matured since then.

and dont forget to throw blender in there for 3d modeling.

There are several accounting solutions out there, just a quick search found:
http://www.gnucash.org/
http://turbocash.net/
http://frontaccounting.com/wb3...
http://www.sql-ledger.com/
http://ledgersmb.org/

Her is a list of replacements for AutoCAD:
http://blog.cometdocs.com/10-g...

Besides GIMP there is Krita and Cinepaint, and GIMPshop provides a Photoshop like interface. GIMP does have plugins if one needs CMYK. Inkscape does Vector Graphics. Scribus is more of a replacement for Illustrator.

There were some lack of features years ago. The options have matured since then.

http://www.sql-ledger.com/ ugly as sin but it does *everything* and it's reliable. Good community support.

The version published on the website at http://www.sql-ledger.com/source/license/COPYING takes precedence over any other version in circulation.

I think just about everything is now covered in LedgerSMB or the project from which it was forked - SQL-Ledger. My business has been using these systems for the last four years and has found them to be stable, flexible and reliable.

The back end runs on an Apache server with PostgreSQL underneath. The client side can be just about any browser platform (including Lynx). There are online demos where you can test most of the functionality before deploying in your own network.

HTH.

SQL-ledger is a good bookkeeping package (and a whole lot more) and SugarCRM can handle the CRM side of things. There's even some glue scripts out there to keep the client info sync'd between them.

I'd also add Zimbra to the list of very good non-SourceForge projects. However, to be fair, the original poster was referring mostly to word of mouth being the primary source of info, nothing in the post said, "anything not on SourceForge is te suxors!"

http://www.sql-ledger.com/

Great Perl-based web app. We're using it to replace our foxpro-based accounting app. We looked at upgrading our existing accounting app and it would of cost us almost 6 digits. We've been converting to SQL-Ledger with great success.

Having the source available is bonus. (And having a perl developer on the payroll is also good) So far we've done UPS WorldShip integration, and we're planning a barcoded inventory. We will soon be integrating VendorNet support for a few of our customer.

It's a very stable app, and I can't speak enough great things about it.

there aren't any accounting packages for Linux that have even a fraction of the functionality that the admittedly low-end Quickbooks offers.

I think you need to check this site out for a viable option for accounting: http://www.sql-ledger.com/

The biggest problem you have is getting a company to switch systems. As in most cases they get used to using the first thing they start with. Moving to a new accounting system is painful regardless of the systems involved. You must have commitment from the top on down to make it a success.

Here you go: http://www.sql-ledger.com/ You can send me $799 thanks. ;-)

"My accountant and book keeper run Quickbooks." SQL Ledger is a PostgreSQL and Apache application. It doesn't matter what your accountant runs on his computer. Assuming that your accountant has a computer and some sort of an internet browser then she would be OK. Also, your accountant could work from her office downtown or from her laptop at home and doesn't have to drive to your shop anymore - just courier the accountant a box full of paper. See this: http://www.sql-ledger.com/ Also, note that any accounting package is pretty much like any other accounting package, since they are all machine implementations of paper ledgers. Accountants switch between accounting programs as easily as typists switch typewriters.

I was recently asking this same question, albeit for a home-based consulting business.

The solution that I found was SQL-Ledger. While it is overkill for my needs, I think it might fit your criteria quite well.

You've probably already come across it, but Compiere is a great ERP/POS. It's open source (MPL), but currently requires Oracle, which ups the minimum investment to $1,500 -- probably not in your budget. The PostgreSQL port is reportedly in progress.

There are other small systems around that you've likely already seen, such as SQL Ledger (with a web UI, yuck).

This site seems to have some suggestions as well:
Christopher Browne's compilation of free software for accounting.

It would not be outside the realm of possibility to utilize wine to run your accounting software. FYI, I wasn't able to get QuickBooks 2002 running with Wine 5/08/03 snapshot -- but I didn't try very hard.

Good luck.

Face it: if Ellison and his buddies hadn't bought congress to get the H-1b program, most of the folks reading this would be in a far better economic position. For that matter if McNealy's co-religionist Greenspan(McNealy and Greenspan are both Ayn Rand fans) were consistent in his policies, instead of playing games that centralize assets you'd be a lot better off.

There would be a slump right now even without H-1b, but instead of 500,000 unemployed engineers, we might be looking at 50,000 or so-it that.

There are still a lot of high leverage areas in software: embedded systems, bioinformatics, robotics. What isn't clear to me if dinosaurs like Oracle,Microsoft, Sun really should be playing any role in the new software business. I say that we just Open Source all the technology of these companies-starting with Oracle.

JBOSS is a decent application server that completed head to head with Oracle Application Server. Postgres can be made better than Oracle(big missing feature is replication which is coming along fast). The accounting packages Oracle sells can be replaced by stuff that evolves from stuff like SQL Ledger. All in all, I think Oracle will be dead before Microsoft. Good Riddance.

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.

Not everyone wants a double-entry system, but as I do I'm using SQL-Ledger. Perl + PostgreSQL + Apache.

Know nothing about it, but looked it up on Google. Might as well share my research:

SQL Ledger

Christopher Browne's List of Free Software for Business Accounting

Mini review of SQL Ledger

Short discussion of SQL Ledger from GNU.ORG

AllCommerce, an ecommerce and fulfillment system

GNU Enterprise

Linux-Kontor is a free ERP (enterprise resource planning) software suite.

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).

GPL'd, web-based, double entry accounting system
for businesses. Full internationalization support
for several languages, currencies and chart of
accounts, written in Perl. Good stuff.
Webpage here

GNUCash is *not* a business accounting system.
It is a *personal* accounting system.