Web based application

[Mike Schwartz]

> This is something I am working on; I wonder if there is interest out there
on
> something like this.
> 
> http://www.fpgroups.com
> 
> Jose Lerebours

Hi Jose:

      This demo looks like a front end for a pretty generic (filePro
based???) accounting package.

      You're about 20 years too late to try to write a new generic
accounting package, unless you have come up with some clever idea as to how
to quickly and easily modify both the underlying filePro code and the web
interface.  

       If this is a demo of some clever tools that you wrote which would
make it much simpler to add a web-based front end to existing filePro
applications, then I would like to hear more.

       If you are trying to write another generic accounting package that
will require hiring both a filePro expert and a web designer to make changes
to, then you are probably wasting your time.  You would be better off
finding some specific industry to write a package for and then try to market
that as a turn-key package that you would maintain.

      Now days it is probably a waste of time to write a full (general
ledger based) accounting package in any programming language (not just
filePro).  Most of the work I've done in the past 20 years has been writing
custom filepro data entry systems and then tying them into existing "canned"
accounting systems such as Peachtree, Quickbooks and Solomon accounting (now
called Microsoft Dynamics).

      Circa 1990, I wrote a "hybrid" filePro/Cougar Mountain manufacturing
system.  It wasn't real-time, but the customers I had were Ok with that.
All of the data entry was done in filePro and then filePro posted the info
into Cougar Mountain Accounting every night.  I told them it would be too
costly and difficult to maintain if I were to post the data in real-time.  

      Unfortunately, Cougar Mountain dropped its Unix based program in the
1990's and then went out of business just before the year 2000, so that was
the end of that venture.     

Mike Schwartz
PC Support & Services
Appleton, WI