Re: gEDA suite vs my creaky old Protel Client 3.5?

Ok, I finally have had some time to investigate GNUCash.  It appears to be a
functional clone of Quicken, QuickBooks, and MSMoney.

It handles simple tasks like checkbooks, mortgages, bank accounts, paychecks...
It also handles business tasks like payroll, inventories, accounts payable,and
receivable, depreciation, taxes, ...

It appears to be a full, simple accounting system for home finance, and small
business finance.  I am going to give it a whirl on replacing my business book
keeping tasks.

If you want to know more about it, there is a full blown help system available
on the web, just google gnucash help.

Joel Kolstad wrote: 
"Chuck Harris" <cf-NO-SPAM-harris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:JuKdnTdLTPtOZurfRVn-tA@xxxxxxxxxx

Well, let's see, Quickbooks should be able to run under wine, and there is
certainly an equivalent package to Quickbooks, perhaps gnucash?


Does it read Quicken files? 

It reads QIF files, which are available from MSMoney, Quicken, and QuickBooks.


A BIG reason people resist changing to Linux -- even when the tools are
arguably 'good enough' or even as good as the PC versions -- is that they have
hundreds or thousands or hours invested in creating their data and they don't
want to re-enter it all.


That doesn't apply here, as GNUCash already has that avenue of migration covered.

-Chuck
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