[Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] Re: Open Source Financial Management and HR

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

Here's Dave Davis's response to Bruno's questions:

On Mon, 05 Mar 2001, Dave Davis wrote:
> 
> Mr. Vernier:
> 
> Thank you for checking out our web site.  It was just redone
> after our
> decision to "open source" our products.  And, as usual, it is
> a work in
> progress.
> 
> Let me answer your questions:
> 1. Our licence is a take-off of the ZPL.
> 2. Prayerfully, we will have our download functions
> operational in
> April.
> 3. Our 5GL Tools, which are also open source, are written in
> the c
> language.  99% of our application products (MicroUDGET-GUI,
> Xpert and
> more) are built and processed using these Tools.  A couple of
> programs
> such as compute payroll, set check numbers, etc. are
> traditional "hard
> coded" c programs.  (Working with education, you can
> appreciate the
> complexities of educational payrolls.)  Right now we use motif
> and are
> in the process of converting to GTK.  Our developers are busy
> getting
> some of the motif functionality that we like incorporated into
> the GTK
> project.   Our databases are based on the c-isam model and
> include
> informix, fair-com and a couple that we are working on.
> 4. We are very fond of linux though we also support MS
> 98/NT/2000.  In
> addition, we have some AIX  users.  Suse 6.2 or better is our
> in-house
> flavor.  In addition, we have successfully run on the other
> popular
> linux releases.
> 
> I hope this answers your questions.  I would be happy to send
> you a note
> or a cd as soon as our code is "cleaned up" and ready for open
> source
> distribution.  We are very excited about our move to open
> source and
> look forward to working with the community.
> 
> Please let me know if you have other questions.
> 
> Here to serve.
> Dave Davis
> 
> 
> 
> 
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