On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:49:23AM -0500, Ryan Ware wrote: > > > http://www.gnuenterprise.org > > I was mistaken. It looks pretty young though. The project has actually be going on for some years now, and having absorbed or merged with no less than three other projects, including one I started long ago (OpenRP), it has a good developer base. It has matured past the "talk" stage and is well into "production use" at certain sites. Currently, GNUe Forms and GNUe Reports seem to work well in tying database records to form and report elements, though it doesn't yet have the n-tier we're trying to build. It makes a great replacement for M$ Access applications. Work is being done to create the middle layers of the n-tier architecture, including business objects, methods, and your basic Object->Relational mapping. The appserver pushes out XML Forms and Data to the clients quite well, making it technically a 3-tier architecture, but maybe not in the sense that most developers envision. All in all, it is young, but it's maturing quickly. Is it comparable to SAP yet? No. Will it be? Maybe not. I think there's a different design goal for GNU Enterprise than SAP. Regardless, it is A solution in this world of MANY solutions, but the point that matters is that it's a GNU solution. That means no Java, no closed source, and freedom as in "free beer". -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020624/c55c1475/attachment.pgp