TurboCASH
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| Developer: | Pink Software |
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| Latest release: | 3.754 / March 15, 2007 |
| OS: | Windows |
| Use: | Accounting |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | www.turbocash.co.za |
TurboCASH is an open source accounting software package, developed by Pink Software, a South African company. It has been continuously developed since April 1985, and was released under the GPL in July 2003.
The biggest TurboCASH communities are found in South Africa, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Belgium, USA, Canada and Australia. It has been translated into Afrikaans, Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Indonesian and Spanish.
It is aimed at the small to medium-sized business market, rather than simply being a home finances package.
It integrates directly with osCommerce, CRE Loaded and Zen Cart. Being originally developed in Delphi, it only runs on Windows, although the developers are considering a Linux version. [1]
[edit] Criticism
Turbocash uses Paradox/BDE, and some developers have criticised this choice, suggesting rather using a more modern SQL database, as they claim that Paradox/BDE is out of date and slow.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. [2]. TurboCASH version 4.0 will be based on the Firebird database.[3]
Turbocash has also faced criticism from some open-source advocates, as commercial applications are required to compile Turbocash.
[edit] Forks
In August 2006, the Dutch development team (which by some accounts was only one person)[citation needed] resigned, forking osFinancials from the project.
[edit] See also
- OsFinancials - a fork of TurboCASH
- Comparison of accounting software
