[wplug] Financial Management Software

[Sean McCune]

I've found that nothing runs in Crossover Office well enough that I'd
use it in a production system for a business.  And for financial
software, I wouldn't use it at home either.

On top of that, neither Quicken's nor QuickBook's online banking
portions (which is a must for me) worked under Crossover... unless
they've released a patch.  I've given up looking at it.

My current scheme is to use Quicken for personal stuff and QuickBooks
for biz on XP under vmware on my linux box unless and until any of the
Linux software such as GnuCash, Kapital, etc. gets online banking
capabilities that work with my bank.  My bank (PNC) doesn't allow
uploading and downloading of OFX files, so I can't synchronize by
downloading a file of transactions and importing.  Nor can I make online
payments by uploading an exported OFX file.

So, unfortunately, I'm stuck paying Intuit for now.  :(

McC


On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:25, Russ Schneider wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, 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.  
> 
> Well, Crossover Office claims Quicken can be run on Linux using it's 
> software very successfully:
> 
> http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice/
> 
> 
> And, some people have found many versions of Quicken run well even under 
> Wine (never tried it myself):
> 
> http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=107
> 
> 
> Based on CrossOver's claims, it would seem you can free up that Windows 
> partition anytime you wish, even if you don't find a good open source 
> alternative to Quicken.