business forms, etc

Derek I have no idea how I would find the time but I'd love to see that
as well.

Carl P.

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 13:16, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> Mike Starke said:
> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:36:50PM -0700, Brian Tafoya wrote:
> > /_What we have done for our business is build web-based forms in PHP and
> > /_tied them to MySQL. :) Works extremely well!
> > /_
> > /_--
> >
> > Sounds like the 'html' output I finally refered to. I am begining
> > to think good ole fashioned Perl|PHP/MySQL is the way to go for all of
> > this. I devised a Perl/MySQL invoice system that utilizes
> > 3 tables to crank out invoices. Simple, clean, works anywhere, and even
> > spits out the invoice in XML if I ever have a need.
> >
> > However, Dereck's suggestion with taging a OO document then run
> > a report also sounds interesting.
> >
> > I really hate to see this thread die a quick death. To me, this
> > document/form creation/managment stuff is the heart and soul
> > of all small->medium businesses. We really need a coherent, easy to use
> > OS solution to these issues (One of the reasons I'm just chomping
> > at the bit waiting for GNUe to mature a bit more :-)
>
> I guess I dont get the "wait to get more mature" line. With GNUe Forms
> and Reports I can spit out what you guys are doing with php/perl w/o
> writing a line of code. It is fully portable to all major operating
> systems and databases. People often think GNUe needs maturing because
> they dont see a finished ERP. I'm telling you the architecture is pretty
> much there. When 0.5.0 gets released (should be within a two weeks) we
> will suprass the feature set of Oracle SQL*Forms 7.0.
>
> As to the coffee shop demo, Im all for it. I'm on the east side, but work
> downtown either location is fine for me.
>
> -Derek
>
>
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