On Wednesday 20 May 2009 08:33:05 Raj Mathur wrote: > Is GNUKhata a desktop app? From Anusha and Kirshnakant's presentation > at the last freed.in, the impression I got was of a > financial/accounting application server that leaves the choice of > front-ends to the user.
Didn't know. From the mail I got the impression that it was a desktop app. > And frankly, if I'm using GK for any serious > accounting I personally would be very happy if it's running PostgreSQL > and not some toy database. Specially not some toy database that is > owned today by a company whose credentials in the FOSS world aren't all > that hot. +1 > At the risk of being rude (not that I'd be doing something > that has never happened before on this list ;) suggesting that > corporates keep decades worth of critical accounting data in, e.g., > SQLite is just plain dumb. At least until you show me at least one > serious FA/ERP system that has been adopted by corporates and uses > SQLite as the back-end RDBMS. Well for an enterprise grade product, my first choice would be postgresql without a second thought. > Having said that, maybe KK & co. could investigate the possibility of > putting in a database abstraction layer in GNHKhata; if you do that you > could let users choose which RDBMS they wish to use depending on their > needs and their environment. I'm sure Mrugesh would be happy to create > the necessary triggers, etc. to make the abstraction layer work with > SQLite :) Nah, I don't know sqlite. postgresql ftw. Mrugesh -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
