Cubit Accounting

Cubit Accounting

Cubit is a web based business and accounting proprietary system that is developed and produced in South Africa The business model is one of the first Software as a service models, where the software is freely downloadable but revenue is generated through monthly subscriptions which includes telephonic support, tax updates and future versions.

History

Cubit Accounting Software started off as a BSD Licensed open source project in January 2001 lead by Andre Coetzee but during 2003 adopted a proprietary licensing scheme with a software as a service business model.At the time Michael Gouws and their teams developed much of the core code. All the core modules where re-written during 2006 by a teams of developers led by two of the Cubit Company shareholders, Franpierre Nel and Quintin Beukes and assisted by South African Chartered Accountants, South African University Professors and other professionally qualified staff and consultants to the Cubit company

Cubit Accounting also acts as incubator for some South African Open Source projects. Impi Linux was one of these. Cubit also supports many other Open Source projects directly and indirectly and believes in empowering people.

Cubit is mainly written in PHP, Python, Java, C and C++. It ships with PostgreSQL, Firefox and Apache. Cubit has also been ported to other proprietary databases.

Developments

Cubit currently has separate versions for the Property, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Construction and other vertical software markets. The current production version is 3.1

The Cubit system (in 2004) shipped personal computers free of charge, to estate agents and charged these agents for the use of the software. This model has proved slightly immature at the time but will be re-instated in the future.

During May 2008 Cubit released the first free Open_source BSD_licenses software since 2003, Cubit Point of Sale [http://cubitpos.sourceforge.net Cubit POS] on Sourceforge Cubit also hopes to re-license many more modules and software under the BSD license in the future.

External links

* [http://www.cubit.co.za/ Cubit]
* [http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/software/2006/0601111032.asp?S=Business%20Applications&A=BAP&O=S Itweb]
* [http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=782 Tectonic]
* [http://www.linux.co.za/linux/view/linux/en/page11477?oid=15381&sn=Detail Linux.co.za]
* [http://www.theinnovationhub.com/newsbits/vol4no9/news12.cfm Innovation Hub]
* [http://www.ictworld.co.za/EditorialEdit.asp?Archive=1&EditorialID=22698 ICT World]
* [http://www.networktimes.co.za/Regular.ASP?pklRegularID=1642&pklIssueID=433 Network Times]
* [http://estrategy.co.za/news.asp?pklNewsID=13094&pklIssueID=453&pklCategoryID=218 E Strategy]


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