On Sunday 23 June 2002 00:27, Ryan Ware wrote: snip-- > Most opensource > projects I've seen (not including linux itself) are done by a hand > full of developers, (look at source forge and see how many > developers a project has) in there spare time. No way are they ever > going to build an exchange or notes/domino type product. It seems > to me what software exist on Linux tends to be of > networking/internet related toolsets - not business software. A quick look on freshmeat gives: 10 categories found Topic :: Office/Business (754 projects) Topic :: Office/Business :: Financial (280 projects) Topic :: Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting (70 projects) Topic :: Office/Business :: Financial :: Investment (30 projects) Topic :: Office/Business :: Financial :: Point-Of-Sale (40 projects) Topic :: Office/Business :: Financial :: Spreadsheet (15 projects) Topic :: Office/Business :: Groupware (46 projects) Topic :: Office/Business :: News/Diary (17 projects) Topic :: Office/Business :: Office Suites (39 projects) Topic :: Office/Business :: Scheduling (126 projects) It looks like some interest exists. Sure they may not all be what you are looking for, but most probably have not been in existence long. > As long as I'm ranting, another thing we will never see from open > source software is documentation to the level that is typical of > commercial software. I hope this remains true. From what I have seen of commercial software documentation, it is lacking, out of date, a PITA to read.... OS docs on the other hand are witty and to the point. The docs require the user to actually open a file called README. I don't know how many times I have solved a friends problems with an app on Linux when all I did was look at the README or INSTALL plain text file that came with the application. Some apps don't have them, but most mature apps do! Kelly Black KB0GBJ