Chris Travers wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Adrian Chapman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I apologize for what must be a repeated question.  Are there migration 
>>>> tools
>>>> to move from QuickBooks to LedgerSMB?  I did not find anything in the
>>>> distribution.  Also, I checked the SqlLedger site for ideas and found that
>>>> the Migration Tools page was empty.
>>> Which version of Quickbooks?  And is this on Windows?
>>>
>>> I don't know of any tools, but I might be able to point you in the
>>> right direction in terms of doing a migration.
>> I'd be interested in that, too.
>>
>> QB2005 Regular. I'm not aware of QB being on anything but Win.
> 
> I believe there is a Mac version too.
> 
>> It could be a good way to pick up plenty of hacked-off QB customers.
>> Intuit have changed the product range about a bit, and the choice is now
>> between a cheap standard edition which doesn't even do aging of invoices
>> or an expensive "Pro" version which does far more than most smaller
>> businesses need.
> 
> The reason I ask is that newer versions might use more open database
> technologies.  I believe the mac version uses SQLite.  I don't know
> about the PC version.

Actually they have a Linux version of the backend (database) engine but 
it is only available for the Enterprise version and that costs even 
bigger bucks than Pro!

Sucks all around!


Rod
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> Chris Travers
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