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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Stryker on 18 August 2003, 10:46

Title: bank manager?
Post by: Stryker on 18 August 2003, 10:46
I've searched google for a while, couldn't find anything. I was wondering if anyone knew of a bank manager for linux. Not something that a consumer would buy, something the bank would use to keep track of their customers and their accounts (checking, saving, credit...). I'm just curious, never played around with such a program before.
Title: bank manager?
Post by: raptor on 18 August 2003, 21:53
yes i do know of one.

keep everything up2date when balancing ur checkbook, or organizing account finances.

http://www.gnucash.org/ (http://www.gnucash.org/)
Title: bank manager?
Post by: raptor on 18 August 2003, 21:55
or there is : http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/ (http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/)

[ August 18, 2003: Message edited by: raptor ]

Title: bank manager?
Post by: Stryker on 18 August 2003, 23:06
I'm not looking for personal software though, i'm looking for something a national bank would use. I dont have any examples or i'd give you one. You know when you go to the bank and that nice lady behind the counter is punching away at some DOS like program networked with the others?
Title: bank manager?
Post by: flap on 18 August 2003, 23:21
I'm sure big banks use bespoke software for that. I doubt you can get anything like that 'off the shelf'.
Title: bank manager?
Post by: Stryker on 18 August 2003, 23:40
Alright, but how about some credit union that has 2 branches? surely they dont won't have custom software. There has to be something out there, i'm just having a bit of trouble finding any... even for windows.
Title: bank manager?
Post by: flap on 19 August 2003, 01:52
If the business is that small then they'd probably just use a database, which could be built fairly easily. Do you actually need this for something?
Title: bank manager?
Post by: raptor on 19 August 2003, 04:10
quote:
Originally posted by Stryker:
I'm not looking for personal software though, i'm looking for something a national bank would use. I dont have any examples or i'd give you one. You know when you go to the bank and that nice lady behind the counter is punching away at some DOS like program networked with the others?


YA! but sorry to say that banks are running a windows application! *usually on a DELL*
Title: bank manager?
Post by: Stryker on 19 August 2003, 04:30
quote:
Originally posted by flap:
If the business is that small then they'd probably just use a database, which could be built fairly easily. Do you actually need this for something?


yep, my own curiosity and education. a database wouldn't be able to handle processing checks, credit/debit cards, and direct deposits. it could hold client information, i'm sure they all use a database of some sort for that. this database would have to have a lot of tables and fields, it would be pretty big with no data. anyone know where i can find such a database?