I would like to clarify the direction of the
Open Sage forum and the
SB2020 Script BASIC open source accounting project, I have been involved with MAS90 since its inception. I introduced
ProvideX to SOTA/Best initially as a license agreement before they bought Mike's company and hired him for a short period. I have worked with many of the resellers / master developers as a sub-contract programming resource. Sage even paid me to present a proof of concept of extending 100 with a browser based interface. With Stephen Kelly leaving and an the acquisition of
Intacct, going from proof of concept to a project failed to happen.
Now that Sage has declared themselves a
cloud company with only one cloud native product with the rest rebranded as generic hosting by subscription. Crippling features for those wishing to stay on-premise with with their sometimes modified version and not supporting mods with cloud hosting doesn't leave M/D's much room to grow. The high cost of developer fees force developers to be non-competitive with their pricing / support models.
The first step to stop the bleeding is take advantage of the
open BOI API Sage offers their customers which is very close to source code access without the developer fees. Sage has also done a great job documenting the
BOI API which is accessible using Microsoft's COM/OLE automation interface. (extensively used with Office integration) For those already being hosted in the cloud with a RDP connection, Sage does support enhancements based on their open BOI API which is why this forum and direction is so important for continued use of the product line.
The
SB2020 project is an insurance and long term goal to migrate to an open source model. Today we can extend 100 affordably and supported by the 100 community. Sage still gets their by the seat licensing fees if the extensions are written in
ProvideX or something else. The benefit to something else is it builds a library of community derived solutions developers own or contribute to the open source pool.
My function on the Open Sage forum is to facilitate an open approach to
Sage 100 software using Script BASIC which I have done the same for since 2005. I will offer peer support for community based projects and I'm available for special projects members (Sage Partner's) may need done for their customers. I'm affordable and easy to work with. I normally will do projects for a fixed fee if defined and not ongoing.
I hope to see more of the Sage developer community join us here on the forum. It's
FREE and puts the fun back into programming.
