Quick books for linux

[G Gambill]

You might look at CodeWeavers CrossOver Office
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/.

They are writting the Windows API's in native Linux (not emulation).

They may support QuickBooks.  Wouldn't be suprissed.

I have had very good results running the Windows Office Suite with CrossOver
Office on Linux.

For a review, see http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/4126/1/

You might also want to look at the WineHQ project http://www.winehq.com/ the
free version of CodeWeavers CrossOver Office.

Others on the list might want to jump in here.

George


> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:10:40 -0700
> From: Carl Parrish <lists at pcl-consulting.com>
> Subject: Re: Quick books for linux
>
> jon wrote:
>
> > You might want to check out the online edition:
> >
> > http://oe.quickbooks.com/home.shtml?sc=QBC-V51-HME-HMEPGE
> >
> >     -- jon
> >
> > Michael Sammartano wrote:
> >
> >> Is there an app out there that will do what Quick books will do for
> >> Linux? I need something like it for a small business.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >
> >
> For personal data I recommend checkbook tracker (free) or moneydance
> (java) they are both nice simple tools that run great in Linux.
> Moneydance has better reporting tools though. For *really* small
> businesses gnucash works, it needs to be updated to gnome 2.x pretty bad
> and getting it to work with multiple users is a PITA but I ran my
> consulting company off of it for years. Today I use quickbooks online
> edition. Currently you need to run IE to use it (though they have hinted
> that they will soon have it working with firefox - please all firefox
> users check out the forums and ask about it so that the managers etc...
> will know there is a market for it). What I do now is run IE though
> crossover office.  It works fine (though its a resource hog) only weird
> thing (and maybe this is the same on Widows) is that if you're in a
> field and type on the backspace key it erases the entire field not just
> the last charter. I've pretty much learned to live with that however.  I
> can't *stand* working in IE though so I'm currently working on getting
> wine to allow me to run activeX through Mozilla (should work in firefox
> as well) I've already checked and if I have firefox spoff as IE on
> Windows the application will let me login the only problems so far is
> when I run into activeX.
>
> Netsuite is another great online tool that works great with Linux I ran
> that for a year and it was awesome. Reasons I switched to Quickbooks are
> 1) my accountant was more familiar with quickbooks 2) my wife and my
> admin liked the GUI for quickbooks better 3) Quickbooks allows you to
> pick and choose which tools you need. If you pick all the tools that
> Netsuite has then Quickbooks ends up being more expensive. For us we
> didn't need all the tools (we have our own E-comm package and prefer
> SugarCRM to their CRM package). Netsuite makes you pay for the entire
> package. 4) Quickbooks allows you to pay per month.  Netsuite you had to
> pay the entire year upfront, if you do the same with Quickbooks QBOE
> ends up being cheaper (they give you a 10% discount).  Negatives are
> that Intuit *really* tries to make you use *only* their products.
> Currently there is no way to backup your data to your own computer. They
> control all the backups (we've found a work around for this if you want
> it). I've already mentioned the IE only aspect (yuck). Quickbooks
> *easily* wins for 1) cost / cash flow 2) documentation 3) certified
> accountants - I was never able to find someone certified w/ Netsuite and
> though my accountant used it he complained all the way.
>
> it should be mentioned that there are several open source tools that run
> on the web they just didn't work out for us. 1) Most are written in perl
> or python, we're now a php only shop and want a php tool to work with.
> 2) None of them work with mysql, it seems the designers all believe
> mysql isn't up to running financial programs 3) My admin and my wife
> worked each other up (and I had to listen) on how ugly the open source
> ones were. So while I have hope of finding / witting  a open source tool
> to work with SugarCRM and eProject (we're in testing now). For now going
> with quickbooks online was just easier / cheaper.
>
> --
> Carl Parrish
> ------------
> Developer
> PCL Design & Consulting Inc.
> http://www.pcl-consulting.com
>