Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 16, 2004 11:08 PM
Intuit products are very needed applications on Linux. There is a massive number of users of QuickBooks. There is an even greater number of TurboTax users. Neither of these applications have a Linux equivalent.
GnuCash is great but, it cannot be compared to QuickBooks. Anyone who does compare them has either never used QuickBooks or does not fully understand accounting and what QuickBooks does.
GnuCash, as well as Kapital from The Kompany and some others, are more similar to Quicken than QuickBooks and even when comparing these Linux applications to Quicken, they fall short in areas of ease-of-use and features.
As for TurboTax, there is no Linux equivalent.
Linux on the desktop will make a tremendous step forward when Intuit decides to port their applications to Linux, or a truly viable open source alternative comes about. As for when Intuit might do that, it doesn't seem that it will be anytime soon. Right now, Intuit doesn't seem to be at all interested in the Linux market.
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Good point.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 16, 2004 11:08 PMGnuCash is great but, it cannot be compared to QuickBooks. Anyone who does compare them has either never used QuickBooks or does not fully understand accounting and what QuickBooks does.
GnuCash, as well as Kapital from The Kompany and some others, are more similar to Quicken than QuickBooks and even when comparing these Linux applications to Quicken, they fall short in areas of ease-of-use and features.
As for TurboTax, there is no Linux equivalent.
Linux on the desktop will make a tremendous step forward when Intuit decides to port their applications to Linux, or a truly viable open source alternative comes about. As for when Intuit might do that, it doesn't seem that it will be anytime soon. Right now, Intuit doesn't seem to be at all interested in the Linux market.
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