[plug] OSS payroll with plans for accounts package

[Jacqueline McNally]

I think their solution-based 'Payroll in a Box' sounds wonderful for 
small business. If the IKEA approach is used, that is, unpack yourself 
or pay extra for someone else to unpack and setup, that would be even 
better.

Any Australian developers and or accountants want to assist with the 
statutory requirements for Australia ?

Open-source payroll application launched
[Ingrid Marson, ZDNet UK, November 25, 2004]
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39175137,00.htm

"Clockwork Software Systems launched PayThyme, an open-source payroll 
application, in Birmingham on Thursday. At the company's launch event in 
Birmingham, Clockwork business manager Jim Welch said it was initially 
supplying the software pre-installed on hardware, but will supply it as 
an individual, supported product in 2005. The source code of the product 
will be available for free download from the company's Web site in two 
weeks."

[...]

"The payroll system runs on Debian Linux by default, but can also run on 
other Linux distributions including Red Hat and SuSE Linux. Pinner said 
the company chose Debian as the default distribution because it is 
stable and has a good update mechanism, which will allow Clockwork to 
pass on statutory updates to customers."

[...]

"It also hopes to release an open-source accounts package, and
eventually hopes to produce an "Office in a box" for people who are
setting up a company, which will include payroll, CRM, accounting and
Office packages, said Welch.

[...]

"Clockwork's pre-installed solution, called 'Payroll in a Box', will be 
available at different levels. The entry-level system, which includes 
PayThyme on an IBM A50 Tower PC with screen and Kyocera FS1010 Printer, 
and support for 50 employees, costs approximately £1,450."

All the best
Jacqueline McNally
Lead, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project

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