PBooks has garnered some interest lately, and I just had a nice teleconference with someone involved with the FrontAccounting yesterday. We discussed the overlaps in the two projects, and how we might be able to collaborate.
In addition to that, I’m in an ongoing conversation with a company in Alabama about PBooks and open source accounting. They do a lot of work with open source tools, like an open source shopping cart. Along those lines, they are also well versed with inventory systems, which is great because I’m unfamiliar with that. My experience has been with services businesses.
And just yesterday I received an email from a PhD student studying in Hoboken, NJ (I used to live in Jersey City - woo hoo!), looking for an ACID compliant database for accounting. I replied with this email:
The PBooks database model is ACID compliant, and while we haven’t opened up the PBooks code yet, we plan to, and the model is already available online.
The model is an export from phpmyadmin, and uses the InnoDB storage engine for ACID compliance.
http://www.pbooks.org/pbooks-data-model/
Some of the ideas are extended from XBRL.
XBRL Rules!
Nice!