“Is Linux getting mainstream? Not if you base your
conclusion on the search results I just got at Freshmeat when I
entered “accounting” as my search term. I got geek soup:
packet accounting, multirouting traffic accounting, ISDN
monitoring, network traffic accounting meter, and, at the top of
the list, a patch for the net accounting daemon….”
“Since I am now officially a member of the independent small
business set, it’s time I started looking around to locate all the
accounting tools I need in order to run my business.”
“The first accounting package (in the mainstream sense of the
term) my search on Freshmeat turned up was the nineteenth package
listed: QHacc. That led me to the X11/financial section of the
site, where I found 22 other packages for download. Unfortunately,
most of those were for personal finances rather than business. Here
is a quick look at what I did find.”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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