- TurboCASH
Infobox Software
name = "Turbo"CASH
caption =
developer = Pink Software
latest_release_version = 3.757
latest_release_date =Sep 5 ,2008
operating_system = Windows
genre =Accounting
license = GPL
website = [http://www.turbocash.net www.turbocash.net]"Turbo"CASH is a
free software accounting software package, developed by a project team headed byPhilip Copeman , aSouth African . It has been continuously developed since April 1985, and was released under theGNU General Public License in July 2003.The biggest "Turbo"CASH communities are found in South Africa, the
Netherlands , theUnited Kingdom ,Belgium ,USA ,Canada andAustralia . It has been translated or partially translated into 23 languages includingAfrikaans , Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Indonesian and Spanish. According to the company, TurboCASH has over 60,000 users [http://www.turbocash.net/wiki/index.php?title=Users&Itemid=333] .It is aimed at the small to medium-sized business market, this places it between being a home finances package and being an ERP package. Its core function is a General ledger, posting transactions into accounts and producing financial reports. Plugin technology enables developers to extend the system.
It integrates directly with
osCommerce ,CRE Loaded andZen Cart . Being originally developed in Delphi, it only runs natively on Windows, although the developers have released a version for Linux that runs under Wine. A version that runs underCrossOver , and will therefore run on Apple, is also under development. [http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=3051] .Criticism
TurboCASH uses Paradox/BDE, and some developers have criticised this choice, suggesting rather to use a more modern SQL database, as they claim that Paradox/BDE is out of date and slow. The TurboCASH developers, however, claim that in a network of one to five users, TurboCASH's target market, Paradox/BDE works well and has long record of stability and easy installation. [http://www.turbocash-usa.com/TurboCASH-Multi-user.html] . "Turbo"CASH version 4.0 is based on the Firebird database. [http://www.turbocash.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61&Itemid=86]
TurboCASH has also faced criticism from some open-source advocates, as commercial applications are required to
compile Turbocash. There is a sub-project in place to remove these, as well as a sub project to implement the system in the Lazarus/Free Pascal environment.ee also
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Comparison of accounting software External links
[http://www.turbocash.net TurboCASH Home Page]
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