Accounting Systems on Linux?

cuebei asks: "OK, Slashdotters - let's talk accounting systems for small-mid sized businesses. With the popularity of Linux servers running various e-business services such as web, directory, mail, commerce, etc, it only makes sense for Linux to become a more mainstream platform in the business world. One of the areas where I can foresee Linux being used extensively is in the area of accounting. Linux is both reliable and scalable, two key requirements for any accounting package. So who uses Linux for HR/Accounting? What options are out there? Open-source or commercial? If you were starting your own business and standardized on Linux as a platform, what accounting package would you use and why?"

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[Anonymous Coward]

Try Google instead of wasting bandwith on
Slashdot.

Thanks and have a nice day.

Re:SQL Ledger

[lizrd]

What you say is true. Any sufficiently qualified idiot can make mistakes when programming. The only catch is that some languages make it easier than others.

For example, I suppose that it would be possible to cut John Ashcroft into small bits with a pair of fingernail clippers, but it wouldn't be nearly as easy as doing it with a really big kitchen knife or a chainsaw. Likewise, it'll be much easier to make the mistake of casting a float as an int and back to a float using Perl than it would be to do the same thing in C++ or java.

Even with a good mind, using a suitable language will help you avoid certian classes of mistakes. Trouble with making a browser based accounting package is that perl is the right language for some parts and the wrong language for others. Real world design gets that way sometimes.