[ale] Financial Package for Linux? Microsoft Money for Linux?: )

[James P. Kinney III]

GnuCash, lightweight, can absorb old Quicken files and now does the
online back exchange stuff. Don't bother trying to compile it. Just use
the binaries.

Heavy-weight accounting package: SQL-Ledger. GL, AR, AP, IC, sales
orders, invoicing, emailing of order and invoice. Uses PostgreSQL or
Oracle for a database. Web front end. Now with check printing and a
bunch of other goodies. GPL. $99 gets email support and a pdf manual.
Payroll module in the works. Supports multiple users on multiple
accounts. Imports Quickbooks data files (not Quicken).

There is also a java-based package that is a drop-in replacement for
Quicken. jcash, jmoney, I can't remember. When I tried an older version
(2 years ago) it was very good then. It's been picked up as a commercial
product. About $40. Imports Quicken and online bank data. At the time,
my java platform was horridly slow and unstable so I chose not to use
it. 

AppGen. Big. Commercial. $$$. Does anything. 

Recommendations for leaving the M$ platform packages:
( In order)
1. jcash (or jmoney)
2. gnucash (binary only unless you like dependency hell)
3. SQL-Ledger

On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 00:15, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> In your opinion what is the best financial package for Linux? I was
> running Quicken in Windows and am trying to move everything over but of
> course the big guns (Intuit, Microsoft) don't make a Linux product. My
> needs are very simple and include keeping track of a checking account or
> two and I'd like to be able to download my data from the bank and bring
> it into the package. Thanks for your opinions. 
> 
> Neal
> 
> 
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