Thread: Announcement: planned open source billing system demonstration now available
Announcement: planned open source billing system demonstration now available
From
Richard Schilling
Date:
Just wanted to drop you all a quick note that CogBilling, an online billing system which integrates with GnuCash, is nowavailable for review at http://www.rsmba.biz/download. CogBilling is an online database driven billing system writtenentirely on open source products. In its present state it's intentionally void of heavy graphic images and "creaturefeatures" to maximize flexibility in developing future versions. CogBilling is intended to be useful for any professionalservices organization, but ultimately should function especially well in organizations that do software development,legal services and the like. Furthermore, CogBilling is intended to be integrated into large IT infrastructuressuch as those found in healthcare institutions, clinics and physician practices. This application is the first public release of our planned open source applications. Once we can sustain continuous developmentof the application through the sale of services and website hosting we will release the whole thing under a traditionalopen source license (e.g. Gnu, BSD, etc . . .). At the present, we expect this to occur in the spring or summerof 2004. For the more technically inclined, CogBilling was written in Embedded Perl (Embperl), and uses a PostgreSQL database as thebackend. It is hosted on the latest version of the Apache web server. This is the first beta release of the product, so the user interface promises to be a bit rough, and the online manual isnot presently available. However, you will find that the system's basic functionality works. Future directions we have planned with this product is deeper integration with GnuCash at the database level, integrationwith GnoTime, and integration with Issue Tracker. You can e-mail me directly, but for the benefit of the Open Source community you should also post comments, criticisms orsuggestions posted to this discussion list. Thank you. Richard Schilling
Re: Announcement: planned open source billing system demonstration now available
From
Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
Date:
And what is the licensing? On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:06:00PM -0700, Richard Schilling wrote: > Just wanted to drop you all a quick note that CogBilling, an online billing system which integrates with GnuCash, is nowavailable for review at http://www.rsmba.biz/download. CogBilling is an online database driven billing system writtenentirely on open source products. In its present state it's intentionally void of heavy graphic images and "creaturefeatures" to maximize flexibility in developing future versions. CogBilling is intended to be useful for any professionalservices organization, but ultimately should function especially well in organizations that do software development,legal services and the like. Furthermore, CogBilling is intended to be integrated into large IT infrastructuressuch as those found in healthcare institutions, clinics and physician practices. > > This application is the first public release of our planned open source applications. Once we can sustain continuous developmentof the application through the sale of services and website hosting we will release the whole thing under a traditionalopen source license (e.g. Gnu, BSD, etc . . .). At the present, we expect this to occur in the spring or summerof 2004. > > For the more technically inclined, CogBilling was written in Embedded Perl (Embperl), and uses a PostgreSQL database asthe backend. It is hosted on the latest version of the Apache web server. > > This is the first beta release of the product, so the user interface promises to be a bit rough, and the online manualis not presently available. However, you will find that the system's basic functionality works. > > Future directions we have planned with this product is deeper integration with GnuCash at the database level, integrationwith GnoTime, and integration with Issue Tracker. > > You can e-mail me directly, but for the benefit of the Open Source community you should also post comments, criticismsor suggestions posted to this discussion list. > > Thank you. > > Richard Schilling > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: embperl-unsubscribe@perl.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: embperl-help@perl.apache.org -- __________________________ Brooklyn Linux Solutions __________________________ DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS http://fairuse.nylxs.com http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/downtown.html - See the New Downtown Brooklyn.... 1-718-382-0585
Re: Announcement: planned open source billing system demonstration now available
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Richard Schilling
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I'll be posting the license on our website soon. But, the license for our original work, prior to an Open Source release,is an open source license except that the end user cannot distribute the product beyond their immediate control (e.g.their company). And, the changes one client makes to the product becomes available to all the other clients. It'skind of like an open source license that applies just to our clients. The only restriction really is non-distribution. If/when a software product gets released under and open source license we incorporate the changes that clients have madeto customize the product prior to release. So, if we have 20 customers using the same product and they've had customizationsdone. It's working out pretty well. We're using this model for the software we built for http://www.thenew-hometeam.com. So,yes, the mature version of the home listing search engine we built will eventually be released under a general open sourcelicense. Richard Schilling On 2003.09.23 18:15 Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote: > And what is the licensing? > > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:06:00PM -0700, Richard Schilling wrote: > > Just wanted to drop you all a quick note that CogBilling, an online billing system which integrates with GnuCash, isnow available for review at http://www.rsmba.biz/download. CogBilling is an online database driven billing system writtenentirely on open source products. In its present state it's intentionally void of heavy graphic images and "creaturefeatures" to maximize flexibility in developing future versions. CogBilling is intended to be useful for any professionalservices organization, but ultimately should function especially well in organizations that do software development,legal services and the like. Furthermore, CogBilling is intended to be integrated into large IT infrastructuressuch as those found in healthcare institutions, clinics and physician practices. > > > > This application is the first public release of our planned open source applications. Once we can sustain continuousdevelopment of the application through the sale of services and website hosting we will release the whole thingunder a traditional open source license (e.g. Gnu, BSD, etc . . .). At the present, we expect this to occur in thespring or summer of 2004. > > > > For the more technically inclined, CogBilling was written in Embedded Perl (Embperl), and uses a PostgreSQL databaseas the backend. It is hosted on the latest version of the Apache web server. > > > > This is the first beta release of the product, so the user interface promises to be a bit rough, and the online manualis not presently available. However, you will find that the system's basic functionality works. > > > > Future directions we have planned with this product is deeper integration with GnuCash at the database level, integrationwith GnoTime, and integration with Issue Tracker. > > > > You can e-mail me directly, but for the benefit of the Open Source community you should also post comments, criticismsor suggestions posted to this discussion list. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Richard Schilling > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: embperl-unsubscribe@perl.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: embperl-help@perl.apache.org > > -- > __________________________ > Brooklyn Linux Solutions > __________________________ > DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS http://fairuse.nylxs.com > > http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting > http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients > http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software > http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net > http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/downtown.html - See the New Downtown Brooklyn.... > > 1-718-382-0585 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your > joining column's datatypes do not match >
Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote: >And what is the licensing? > Looking at their web pages, they provide the services, not the software. > >On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:06:00PM -0700, Richard Schilling wrote: > > >>Just wanted to drop you all a quick note that CogBilling, an online billing system which integrates with GnuCash, is nowavailable for review at http://www.rsmba.biz/download. CogBilling is an online database driven billing system writtenentirely on open source products. In its present state it's intentionally void of heavy graphic images and "creaturefeatures" to maximize flexibility in developing future versions. CogBilling is intended to be useful for any professionalservices organization, but ultimately should function especially well in organizations that do software development,legal services and the like. Furthermore, CogBilling is intended to be integrated into large IT infrastructuressuch as those found in healthcare institutions, clinics and physician practices. >> ..... -- Doug Royer | http://INET-Consulting.com -------------------------------|----------------------------- Doug@Royer.com | Office: (208)612-INET http://Royer.com/People/Doug | Fax: (866)594-8574 | Cell: (208)520-4044 We Do Standards - You Need Standards