[seul-edu] Fw: Re: Educational Accounting Systems

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

Here's a discussion I've been having with Edward Moriarity.  If
anyone is interested in working on this, please contact him
directly (and let us know too, of course).   BTW, I've come
across three different Business BASIC interpreters for Linux, so
there may be options beyond hand-converting their code to Python
or Perl or something.  Here are the URLs for all three:

Production BASIC <http://probasic.sourceforge.net/>
ProvideX from Edias <http://www.edias.com> 
BBj from BASIS <http://www.basis.com/devtools/bbj/>.


On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Edward Moriarity
<emmoriar@nims.guhsd.k12.az.us> wrote:
> 
> Great idea!  The programming was 20+ years in the making.
> 
> Doug Loss wrote:
> 
> > Edward Moriarity wrote:
> >
> > > Doug,
> > >
> > > Our student accounting software is not written in Linux,
> it's in Business
> > > Basic.  Our servers are all Linux OS with a Business Basic
> emulator (the BASIS
> > > product) that allows our student accounting programs to
> run.
> > >
> > > The cost on the BASIS pro5 application is about $100/
> simultaneous user license
> > > (check www.basis.com), we use 16 per school.  This allows
> for about 30 users but
> > > only 16 at a time, not a problem most of the time.
> > >
> > > Our school district - GUHSD - may be receptive to making
> our software Open
> > > Source.  We currently don't have a method or procedure.
> >
> > Do you mind if I forward this to the seul-edu mailing list? 
> We may find people
> > there who would be interested in helping port your software
> to some Linux-native
> > language.  If nothing else, it may be possible to
> reimplement it in some other
> > language more easily that it was to write it from scratch.
> >
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