Cloud options?

[Dennis Powless]

I use GC with dropbox without problems.

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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Buddha Buck <blaisepascal at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Mike or Penny Novack <
> stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:
>
> > Correct. While gnucash allows consecutive multiple users it does not
> allow
> > simultaneous multiple users.
> >
> > To provide THAT wouldn't be a simple matter for gnucash developers nor
> > would it be simply a matter of changing gnucash itself. For an
> application
> > to allow multiple simultaneous users requires a DBM (database manager)
> for
> > the program to run under as well as a data being kept in a database that
> > this manager handles. Well SQL qualifies for THAT but I don't know if
> there
> > are any open source projects out there providing a DBM for that.
> >
>
> There are plenty.  MySQL, PostgreSQL, others.  MySQL is GPL2, PostgreSQL
> uses it's own modified MIT license.  Both are in heavy use, and would meet
> the "multiple simultaneous user" requirement handily.
>
> Asking the gnucash developers to roll their own DBM is too much. A DBM
> > wouldn't be specific to an application (though all applications using it
> > would need adjustment to run under its control). So THAT is the question
> we
> > need to ask, IS there a project to provide a "free" DBM"?
> >
>
> As above, a "free" DMBS isn't the problem.  The problem is the "would need
> adjustment to run under its control" aspect.  This is probably getting a
> bit far afield for the gnucash-USER list, but as I understand it GnuCash
> keeps all data in memory, loading it in when the application starts and
> writing it out when saving (or autosaving) the data.  It does not read the
> data from the file when opening a register, viewing an invoice, generating
> a report, etc.  It does not write the data to the file when saving a
> transaction, editing an invoice, creating an account, etc. In order to do
> true multi-user, it would have to be modified to do so (or at least, to use
> a data abstraction layer that could be configured to do so). That is a lot
> of work that goes right at the heart of how GnuCash manages data.
>
> Buddha Buck (somebody who should be writing software running under control
> of a DBM instead of reading email)
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