On 26 Apr 1999, John Hasler wrote:
> pehr writes:
>
> > I'm curious what people think of the market for this.
>
> Good, I'd think. I'd certainly be interested. I mentioned your
> idea to my wife and she immediately came up with a bunch of ideas
> on how to market it.
I think lack of easy to use personal finance software is one of the big
weaknesses of Linux. I hardly ever need a spreadsheet or a word
processor, but I do need something that is at least as powerful as Quicken
was, say, six years ago.
I'd wouldn't be surprised if the current Linux market were in the range of
0.5-5% the size of the desktop market. Of course, there was a day when
the desktop market was 20-200 times smaller than it is today. ;-)
Were I part of whatever startup decided to support/develop gnucash, my big
fear would be a Quicken port to Gnome or KDE. Of course, Intuit was
about to drop development of their Mac product were it not for Steve Jobs
going over there and working some magic. On the other hand, I heard a
rumor that Intuit might be working on a Linux port of Quicken (I don't
consider this likely though). Of course, gnucash has a worldwide target
audience (with currency support, etc).
Anyway, I would definitely pay for such a product, and I just might
actually write code for it if I can get up the energy to do so one of
these days.
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