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