[wplug] Financial Management Software

[Michael E Uhl]

I've never used quicken, but I've been using GnuCash for about 2 and 1/2
years and I'm pretty satisfied.  I do know that it can lookup stock
prices as I've made use of that feature.  I don't know, however, if it
can keep a daily record of stock performance.  As for quicken
compatibility, I've used GnuCash to read quicken .qif files that I've
gotten from my 401k administrator.

All in all I find it to be a pretty capable package, but admittedly, I
don't have excessively high demands.  One last thing, it can be a pain
to install if it doesn't ship with your distribution - it has about a
million dependencies.

Give it a look.

-Michael


On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 16:51, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> One of the last things *requiring* me to maintain a Windows-booted system
> is my 10 years' worth of financial data stored in a "massive" Quicken
> database.  Now, I would imagine that some database program based on SQL or
> something would be a better tool than the clunky and somewhat provincial
> one that Quicken works with, but 10 years of data is also a lot to give up
> (I'm a bit of a pack-rat when it comes to information archival).
> 
> SourceForge seems to have a number of financial management packages
> undergoing active development, including "GnuLedger", "saCash", "Grisbi"  
> (which is French, and so probably a no-go) and a few others.  They all
> look pretty 'alpha.' Does anyone have much experience with any of these,
> or other freely available packages?  A required feature is the ability to
> look up stock market information and keep a daily record of investment
> performance.  A solid plus would be the ability to read a Quicken database
> file.
> 
> As an aside, I will soon be forced to discontinue use of my [legitimately
> obtained] Quicken98 software because their online update system will no
> longer support it.  As an engineer, I have absolutely no respect (negative
> respect, in fact) for a failure to maintain that very simple backwards
> compatibility, and so if I can't find an open-source alternative, I may 
> have to consider pirating an up-to-date Quicken.
> 
> -Brandon
> 
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