Charles, Unfortunately, nothing purely open source exactly duplicates QuickBooks. I've been looking for years! There are very good accounting packages for Linux, but none are exactly open source. Another thing, when I hear "replacement for QuickBooks", the unspoken assumption is that it will use the native QuickBooks formats for an outside accountant to use. That's a very difficult task to accomplish legally.
Latest versions are a weird embedded Sybase iAnywhere implementation. Work is being done on a native Max OSX version - may be ready, I'm not sure. I've heard rumors of QuickBooks releasing a native Linux version of QuickBooks on the QuickBooks forums, but so far, nothing substantial. Since they moved to the Sybase iAnywhere SQL engine, it should be a relatively(?) easy move, and if Microsoft has finally pushed them far enough w/ the IE7 for XP "critical update" debacle, maybe they'll finally get smart. -Greg > Subject: > replacement for QuickBooks? > From: > "Charles-H. Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:06:18 +0200 > To: > [email protected] > > To: > [email protected] > > > Hello, > > I have an friend based in the US who really starts to get interested in > open source for his small business. He asked me if there was an Open > source replacement for QuickBooks.... Do you know any? > > Cheers, > > Charles.
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