A few weeks (?months) ago, I recall reading an announcement on, I think,
slashdot, about a company that was producing a quicken-like financial
management / checkbook program for Linux. While not a quicken clone per se,
looking at their website strongly suggested it was going to be a quicken
equivalent for Linux. They were planning a beta release around March 1 and a
real release around September 2001. It is not freeware / open source, but
looked cheaply enough priced to be worth a look at. Unfortunately, I failed
to bookmark the link and now I cannot find any references to it anywhere. 99%
of all search results on this topic just point me to GnuCash. (Btw, anyone
using that under kde and find it to be stable and worth moving to from
Quicken?).
With the above vague description at hand, did anyone else see this item and
remember where/what it was? I would very much like to try out this software,
becase Quicken is just about the only thing causing me to boot up my old
Windows computer anymore, since email, web, editing are so much faster and
more pleasant on my new linux system anyway.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Neal
Btw: The "other" thing keeping my booting up my old Windows machine is MS
Outlook. I have a ton of archived emails in .pst files, and unfortunately the
proprietary nature of MS's .pst files makes it hard to move the data over to
Linux, since the one format outlook WON'T write out is an mbox file.
I am 80% done with a program that will run on a windows system, access your
outlook message store (using the outlook com components) and rewrite each
folder to a separate file in mbox format. The only thing left to do to handle
mail folders is to figure out how to write the mail message itself (eg the
mail headers, which I have to built "by hand" as outlook either does not keep
them once a mail message is parsed into .pst format or does not provide
anyway to access them as such). Anyone expert on mail headers who could help
me to finish that part of the program please drop me a line. I can already
parse all the folders and accumulate the needed info, I just need to format
it for output.
Alone with same, anyone expert on vcard format let me know - I can also parse
the contacts folder, and it would be nice to output a big vcard file with my
>500 contacts and import it directly into KAB.
Neal
