This gets a bit tiresome. I honestly wish people would do a bit more research before they make blanket statements such as this article is based upon.
What is the problem? People are stuck with quicken/quickbooks data files not working or importing to Linux programs. Wrong. We have had for the past year TWO that do the job nicely. One is open source, one is proprietary.
Kmymoney2 is a drop-in replacement for quicken. While still under development, I have set this proggie up with over a dozen of my clients and they are perfectly happy with it.
Appgen's MyBooks Pro is A closed source, proprietary multi-platform financial package that beats the pants off of Quickbooks. You can access your books from any internet-connected computer in the world and it is scalable to the nth degree. Yeah, it costs about 60 bucks, and I'll tell you why you should pay for it.
You are not going to find a Linux Developer to stay on top of the ever-changing laws, tax codes and stock data for free. I challenge you to find someone who will. If there was someone like that, TurboTax would have a Linux opensource equivilant. The fact is, everything is not free and while I use 99% open source free as in beer software, as A business owner, I chose to use MyBooks Pro.
The Linux community has many choices over windows programs such as quicken/quickbooks. You just have to be aware of what is going on in the community. Google is a good friend of mine.
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Posted by: helios17 on November 09, 2005 12:00 AMWhat is the problem? People are stuck with quicken/quickbooks data files not working or importing to Linux programs. Wrong. We have had for the past year TWO that do the job nicely. One is open source, one is proprietary.
Kmymoney2 is a drop-in replacement for quicken. While still under development, I have set this proggie up with over a dozen of my clients and they are perfectly happy with it.
Appgen's MyBooks Pro is A closed source, proprietary multi-platform financial package that beats the pants off of Quickbooks. You can access your books from any internet-connected computer in the world and it is scalable to the nth degree. Yeah, it costs about 60 bucks, and I'll tell you why you should pay for it.
You are not going to find a Linux Developer to stay on top of the ever-changing laws, tax codes and stock data for free. I challenge you to find someone who will. If there was someone like that, TurboTax would have a Linux opensource equivilant. The fact is, everything is not free and while I use 99% open source free as in beer software, as A business owner, I chose to use MyBooks Pro.
The Linux community has many choices over windows programs such as quicken/quickbooks. You just have to be aware of what is going on in the community. Google is a good friend of mine.
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