[ale] Personal Finance Software

Barry Hawkins barry at bytemason.org
Wed Apr 13 13:00:46 EDT 2005


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James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 22:09 -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> 
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>>James P. Kinney III wrote:
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>>>Just finished the final migration from Quicken to gnucash. So far, wife
>>>likes it much better as she no longer needs to load up vmware.
>>
>>[...]
>>James, didn't you mention using sql-ledger for your stuff as well when
>>you gave that great SMB presentation?  Was that just business stuff, or
>>would you say folks could use that for personal finance as well?
> 
> 
> Sql-Ledger can also be used for personal stuff. It is much more business
> oriented than is GnuCash. GnuCash is much more like Quicken (NOT
> Quickbooks). Since it only runs on a single machine (OK. It can use an
> NFS shared file storage but not multi-access. The Postgresql backend was
> not complete enough the last time I was testing it) it is not suitable
> for a business where more than 1 person needs to hit the books.
> 
> There are a few people on the Sql-Ledger mailing list using it for
> personal finance as well. Most of these also have a business so adding
> another "company" is no big deal for handling the personal finances.
[...]
Thanks much.  My wife and I have small side businesses, and the ability
to hit a single app for personal and business from mutliple points is a
huge plus for us.

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Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
site: www.alltc.com
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