linux based Accounting/ERP software.

[AdmFubar]

is there anyone in the group that works where they are using linuxed
based accounting/erp softawre?? There has to be something out there
for smb's to use. Would love to find someone that supports such
products locally.

[ziggy]

I personally use a program called "gnucash" to do a personal checkbook.
My wife keeps the "hard copy" in the old paper based checkbook. I
understand that it has features for commercial/business use but I
haven't use any of them. There is another program called "NolaPro" that
I just learned of in the Nov. 2008 issue of Linux Journal. It is web
based and looks like it runs on a "lamp" server. The person who wrote
the article uses it in his small business. Googleing NolaPro and gnucash
will give lots of places to look.

[AdmFubar]

gnucash isnt up to par on what we need. It lack bill of material, and inventory modules.
nola looks like a possible solution, it has a bill of materials module. i'll be taking a long look at it.
thanks

will still take more suggestions :)

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[arch3angel]

I have looked for this as well and only found MoneyDance that even
came close. I have not tried it for sure so I can't give you a good
review on it, but it might be something you can also look into. (bows
his head in shame) I am still using Quickbooks on Windows (Shakes head
in shame)

http://moneydance.com/

Hope this helps...

On Oct 7, 1:27 pm, AdmFubar <admfu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> gnucash isnt up to par on what we need. It lack bill of material, and inventory modules.
> nola looks like a possible solution, it has a bill of materials module. i'll be taking a long look at it.
> thanks
>
> will still take more suggestions :)
>

[Rizal Nor]

Hi, you might want to look at compiere and spin-off of it.
It is used mainly for ERP in business, however, installation
and customization can be challenging.
http://www.compiere.com/

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[dno]

I have been trying to switch from Quicken to Moneydance. The latest
build 2008r2, has improved and I am still working through it. But that
is for personal finance. For Business, Quicbooks is still the only game
in town. However, I read about some people using Tally. Although it is
not for Linux, you need to run it under WINE and seems to be for larger
businesses.

[Patrick Regan]

I just found this list
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080927164237918/Financial.html

I don't know if it will help or not, but I thought I'd put it out
there

Pat

[AdmFubar]

yeah i saw that article, it is what prompted me to ask if anyone here is familiar with a linux based package, or better yet their company uses it.

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:15:47 -0400, Patrick Regan <Patrick.R...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just found this list
> http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080927164237918/Financial.html
>
> I don't know if it will help or not, but I thought I'd put it out
> there
>
> Pat
>

[Bill Mayhew]

Hi,

When the company I work for was founded, it ran on mostly open souce
software. Today, there is somewhat more Windows based software
running our customer-facing applications. We've found the strength of
Windows development tools is better, but it does come at a price.
There is still a lot of Linux and open source behind the scene doing
heavy lifting.

A notable exception is small business ERP. Balancing your home check
book is one thing, but running a business is a much higher level
task. There are taxes: federal, state and various localities, A/R, A/
P, payroll. insurace, and so on. As far as I'm convinced, Quick Books
is the only viable choice. You might be able to squeak by with
Moneydance if you are also your own CPA. With Qick Books we can e-
mail our company file to our CPA, who can review and manage the
various journals. Then the CPA e-mails it back. We also use Intuit's
service to process our payroll data. If you decide to go it alone and
figure out the myriad tax issues - good luck.

Unless you have some sort of anti Windows chip on your shoulder,
you'll be better off using Qick Books - and probably spend less money
even though Quick Books and the O/S running it isn't free.

Bill

On Oct 9, 1:26 pm, AdmFubar <admfu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> yeah i saw that article, it is what prompted me to ask if anyone here is familiar with a linux based package, or better yet their company uses it.
>

[Scott Mace]

Have you actually used any of the packages listed in the article that
are suggested as enterprise level?
Saying that Quickbooks is the only viable option is a little over the
top.
It looked like some of those had real possibilties, but not having
used them I have no opinion as to ease of use, but one should not
dismiss them out of hand.
Comparing Quickbooks with moneydance is not what should be done.
Compiere and Quickbooks, how do they stack up?

Scott

[Bill Mayhew]

Hello,

As you probably know, Compiere uses Oracle as its database. There are
versions in beta that use Sybase or MySQL. I have issues about the
open-ness or lack thereof of Oracle. I also had the task of
supporting
Oracle for running SCT's Banner system, which is a small government /
college oriented ERP-like system. In that instance I was running
Oracle 10 on two Sun
Enterpirse 3500 servers. Just supporting Oracle was a time-intensive
experience,
let alone the rest of Banner. I don't think I would recommend pinning
your business
to either a beta product or a product built on top of Oracle unless
you have at
least one staff full time equivalent you can dedicate to the project

The operant element of the discussion is: small business. If you only
have a
few staff people, then setting up and running Compiere is going to
take a significant
hunk of staff time that you could elsewise be dedicating to making or
supporting
products for your customers.

In our case, Quckbooks is handled by a staff person who is computer
savvy, but not a
software developer. As I pointed out, Quck Books is also a defacto
standard, and it
is easy to find CPAs that have in depth experience with the product,
and can easily
deal with the company books by e-mailing a single file back and forth.

I doubt anybody would run a medium or larger business on Quick Books,
of course.
Perhaps then, you'd want to think about other products, one of which
might be
Compiere. I'd recommend looking at the over-all picture. From a
support point
of view, I sided with a product from Datatel, but the employer picked
Banner. The
IT staff weren't the only people they wanted to satisfy. For whatever
reason, the
accounting department preferred Banner. Maybe they liked COBOL, as
there was
a lot of Microfocus COBOL gluing Banner's modules together.

You have to keep your eye on what your over-all costs will be and how
easy it is
to find people that can continue to run your system when you have
staff turn-over.
Also, consider the ease is of training people or odds offinding people
that already
know the user interface of your system when you have staff turn-over
in your
end-user community. If you are doing business-to-business, you should
consider whether you can do supply chain integration with your
suppliers and
the people you supply. Supply chain integration means you may have to
interface
with Sterling's Gentran Integration Suite, Microsoft Biztalk, etc.
Locally, we
have 1EDISource in Kent that has a product called EDI complete. If
you need
to interface with a large company, you'll likely be exposed to SAP's
communications
module called XI. If you deal with Wal*Mart, you will need to have
the ability to
send and receive data via the AS2 standard (which is S/MIME over
HTTPS).

For a medium to large business, selecting the ERP system is a
complicated
question. I would recommend putting the staffing and traning
questions, and
whether or not you need to integrate your business ahead of the of the
software,
then evaluate open source and commercial products based on the
requirements
criteria you have developed. Also, you may need to look at importing
legacy
data. Finally, there may be differences in how easily various
products may be able
to demonstrate compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA or ANSI business
standards you have to meet.

On Oct 18, 6:31 pm, Scott Mace <scottym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you actually used any of the packages listed in the article that  
> are suggested as enterprise level?
> Saying that Quickbooks is the only viable option is a little over the  
> top.
> It looked like some of those had real possibilties, but not having  
> used them I have no opinion as to ease of use, but one should not  
> dismiss them out of hand.
> Comparing Quickbooks with moneydance is not what should be done.  
> Compiere and Quickbooks, how do they stack up?
>
> Scott
>

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[Rizal Nor]

For those who are still looking for options for an ERP for their business, can
also check out adempiere, a spin-off of compiere. It can be used with
postgres database, thus keeping your cost low and no oracle needed.

http://www.adempiere.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=25