Lack of a business-grade accounting system tailored for Australia's onerous taxation system has long kept even the most die-hard Linux fans tied to Windows, but all that is set to change with the open source SYMBOL Accounting.
The brainchild of Perth accountant Edward Metcalfe, Surf Your Money Books Online, or SYMBOL, is a Web-based accounting and payroll system developed on the Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, and Perl (LAPP) platform.