Databases

[Jason Shein]

On March 15, 2005 03:47 am, Gary Layng wrote:
> A somewhat esoteric seeming question about PostgreSQL  and Firebird
> database programs, but: is one preferable over the other?  The only thing I
> know about them is that they're both open source database programs.
>
> I'm giving Quasar a try.  It's a newly open-sourced accounting program
> created by this Calgary company.  The earlier, "OK to use on a single
> computer" non-open-source licence version was no biggie for setup and etc.,
> but the new version is demanding either one of these database programs (or
> Sybase, which is proprietary, and therefore if possible to be avoided...),
> and the only database program I have is mySQL.

Have you looked into SQL-Ledger ?

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

It works extremely well, and can be used with PostgreSQL, Oracle, or DB2 
( sorry no mySQL ).

There is a good article here 
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7290

Give the live demo a try
http://abacus.sql-ledger.com/sql-ledger/login.pl

List of features:

    *  Accounts Receivable
    * Accounts Payable
    * General Ledger
    * Inventory Control
    * Billing / Invoicing
    * Check Printing
    * Purchase / Sales Orders
    * Customizable Taxes
    * Multi-user
    * Multi-company
    * Audit Control
    * Foreign Currency
    * Internationalization
    * Access Control
    * SQL server backend
    * Customizable Templates
    * Customers
    * Vendors
    * Assemblies (BOM, kits)
    * Chart of Accounts
    * Customizable Reports
    * Financial Statements
    * Administration Module
    * Backup to file/email
    * Application Interface
    * Use on Handheld 

and of course it is released under the GPL

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