<div dir="ltr"><div><div>It is PHP & MySQL. It is not a filePro front end. <br><br>Not trying to re-invent anything at all but glad to know about shortcomings before I waste my time ... <br><br>It is meant to be both, an accounting and a warehousing application with Procurement Management and Transportation.<br>
<br></div>I like the idea of fpODBC to help transform legacy applications.<br><br></div>Sure there are some of you that target warehousing, transportation, procurement and may be interested in parallel applications to market !!?? ;-)<br>
<br><br><div>Regards,<br><br><br></div><div>Jose<br></div><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Mike Schwartz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mschw@athenet.net" target="_blank">mschw@athenet.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">> This is something I am working on; I wonder if there is interest out there<br>
on<br>
> something like this.<br>
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> <a href="http://www.fpgroups.com" target="_blank">http://www.fpgroups.com</a><br>
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</div>> Jose Lerebours<br>
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Hi Jose:<br>
<br>
This demo looks like a front end for a pretty generic (filePro<br>
based???) accounting package.<br>
<br>
You're about 20 years too late to try to write a new generic<br>
accounting package, unless you have come up with some clever idea as to how<br>
to quickly and easily modify both the underlying filePro code and the web<br>
interface.<br>
<br>
If this is a demo of some clever tools that you wrote which would<br>
make it much simpler to add a web-based front end to existing filePro<br>
applications, then I would like to hear more.<br>
<br>
If you are trying to write another generic accounting package that<br>
will require hiring both a filePro expert and a web designer to make changes<br>
to, then you are probably wasting your time. You would be better off<br>
finding some specific industry to write a package for and then try to market<br>
that as a turn-key package that you would maintain.<br>
<br>
Now days it is probably a waste of time to write a full (general<br>
ledger based) accounting package in any programming language (not just<br>
filePro). Most of the work I've done in the past 20 years has been writing<br>
custom filepro data entry systems and then tying them into existing "canned"<br>
accounting systems such as Peachtree, Quickbooks and Solomon accounting (now<br>
called Microsoft Dynamics).<br>
<br>
Circa 1990, I wrote a "hybrid" filePro/Cougar Mountain manufacturing<br>
system. It wasn't real-time, but the customers I had were Ok with that.<br>
All of the data entry was done in filePro and then filePro posted the info<br>
into Cougar Mountain Accounting every night. I told them it would be too<br>
costly and difficult to maintain if I were to post the data in real-time.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, Cougar Mountain dropped its Unix based program in the<br>
1990's and then went out of business just before the year 2000, so that was<br>
the end of that venture.<br>
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Mike Schwartz<br>
PC Support & Services<br>
Appleton, WI<br>
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