Re: [SL] Mid-size consulting firm; replacement for QuickBooks?

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, JT wrote:

> My question is relative to what type of companies have adopted SL as their
> financial system; more specifically, does this group (or Dieter) know of
> $10M - $50M companies using SL? I am not a Microsoft fan; I would greatly
> prefer to go with an OSS solution; especialy one with the flexibility to
> grow with our company. Does anyone know of situations where companies had
> to migrate off of SL due to running into limitations (I imagine not). I am
> looking for organizations in similar situations to ours.

> Sorry for not being more clear on my last post.

Jeremy,

   Aha! Now we have something to address. :-)

   The direct answer to your question is that it's all dependent on the
database back end. SQL-Ledger is a set of perl scripts that glue together
the user interface (a textual or graphical web browser) and a database back
end for storing the data. So, the limitations -- if any -- are with the
database and nothing in front of it. (That's assuming that your httpd can
handle the desired number of simultaneous connections.)

   Over the years the question of limits of PostgreSQL has been raised many
times. For all practical purposes, the answer is that you'll not bump up
against table row limits (some users have reported at least 10 million rows
in a table). Now, if your computer and OS cannot access tables in the
terrabyte size, you might run into troubles there.

   If, however, you have a computer with a 64bit CPU, run a 2.6,x series
kernel, have fast and large hard drives, postgres will handle what you throw
at it. Take a look at http://www.postgresql.org for more information.

HTH,

Rich

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