Does GnuCash support transaction downloads yet? Andrew Baudouin Applications Programmer AWC, Incorporated [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: Fernando Vilas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 3:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] linux ready for the business desktop? I suppose that's my cue to talk about GNUcash. It is a very good program, with only a few active developers. You could use it over a network, if you are saving the files to a shared directory. The feature that first attracted me to GNUcash was the PostgreSQL support, but that feature was basically orphaned about a year ago while they redesign the database backend. Many of the features that make it viable in a business are not supported outside of the XML storage method (not in the db). Another key problem with it is the GNOME2 port. It is woefully behind schedule because of the lack of active developers. Running old or multiple copies of gnome aggravates automated updaters like swaret (I run Slack-current). Last time I checked, a couple of months ago, there was not support for different users in the same sense that there is in Quickbooks. Intuit allows certain users to only see parts of the program for the sake of security. This would be a great feature in whatever financial applications compete for marketshare in the Linux business desktop world. While many accountants advise clients to use Quickbooks, this is primarily for simplicity for the users. But to make any inroads in the linux world, accounting software will have to be able to import and export Quickbooks files. If anyone is interested, look at the docs (they are a beast) and see what you can do for your favorite linux accounting software. -- Thanks, Fernando Vilas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday January 9 2005 16:11, Will Hill wrote: > Aha, I should read before I ask questions like what's missing. > > Fernando looked into that a while back and found some problems with GNUcash, > which looks like an excellent program. I use it for my own books and think > it can be used by a small business. Fernando thought it had problems sharing > books over a network for some reason, but I'm not sure why or what other > problems there were or if any of them would be a show stopper for the average > small business. > > A very Linux shop I interviewed with last summer used Windows for billing, > Peachtree I think. I'll bet you can run it under dosbox by now, but don't > know about printing! > > On Sunday 09 January 2005 10:17 am, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > ... can't run on Linux, or at least not well. This is > > especially true for CRM, accounting, and financial applications. > > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
