Hi,<br><br>Actually there is already a Linux Accounting package available which is very similar to Sage. It's called Jalia. Go here --> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jalia/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/jalia/
</a> for more info. They also do an online payroll.<br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>Andrew Ballantine.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Barbie</b> <<a href="mailto:barbie@missbarbell.co.uk">
barbie@missbarbell.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:51:58PM +0100, Geoff Bagley wrote:
<br>><br>> One question which crops up in some circles concerns those applications<br>> which are an industry<br>> standard, but for which there is no Linux equivalent.<br>> Specifically "SAGE", widely used by most UK accountancy firms.
<br><br>This is difficult. SAGE is a very established piece of software and the<br>accountancy rules can get very complex. John Pinner of Clockwork<br>Software and The Linux Emporium, wants to tackle this, and as first step
<br>created PayThyme to handle payroll. It's all FLOSS and you can download<br>the code from their site. He employes a SAGE developer, who apparently<br>was one of the original coders on the application, way back when, so
<br>understands the complexities. However, after about 3-4 years of knowing<br>John, he's still no nearer releasing an Open Source alternative.<br><br>It would take some major investment at the moment to try and do<br>
something to compete with SAGE, and I don't think anyone is willing to<br>do that yet.<br><br>Barbie.<br>--<br>Birmingham Perl Mongers - <a href="http://birmingham.pm.org">http://birmingham.pm.org</a><br>Miss Barbell Productions -
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