"LedgerSMB is a fork of a popular general ledger software package called SQL-Ledger largely written and maintained by Dieter Simader.
SMB is an acronym for Small Medium Business.
Some of the improvements that we've made to the code base so far include:
* Enhanced security
* Better Windows support
* More reports
* An Open Development Model
* Better data integrity controls
Our goal with LedgerSMB is develop new features with a true community driven project.
Our first release was largely to fix the serious security flaws, and we have started mapping out a plan to make the code base clearer, more secure and more standards compliant.
Some features that we started building and/or are planning for future releases of LedgerSMB:
* More authentication options
* LDAP customer/staff support
* More logic in the database with more constraints
* Improvements on the data structure
* Central database for users and preferences
* Platform and language neutral APIs (XML)"