Fwd: MacBook

[Michael]

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From: Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>
Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: MacBook
To: Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com>


They're web services, Xero.com and FreshBooks.com, just hit the sites.
Sorry, probably should have been clearer about that.

-mb




On 08/25/2016 10:24 AM, Michael wrote:

Hey Michael.... how do you get Xero and Freshbooks?

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> I found quicken to be pretty lame for the minute I tried it with a former
> accountant, and found it really didn't do anything I couldn't get in Xero
> accounting suite, a web-based product.  Far better integration as well with
> other apps like expensify and freshbooks.
>
> I ended up with both Xero and Freshbooks as both have ups and downs, where
> freshbooks is awesome for invoicing, accounting, creates customer portals
> automatically to view work history, bills received/paid, etc, Xero is
> better at general ledger management and methodology.  Quicken seemed more
> like the old slug GM-like company product that is too big to fail (doing
> everyone a favor), as using even the enterprise version I wanted to stab
> myself in the eye.  There was nothing I missed from Quicken, and a whole
> lot more to love with others.
>
> I've operated as a consultant in dozens of orgs across the years with
> linux, and I never found anything that couldn't be accomplished in linux
> really, minus a good visio replacement.  The only problem is when they just
> use garbage like lync and quicken is that is a vendor lock-in to micro$oft
> anyways.
>
> Solution: Replace them.  I did, it is possible.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 08/24/2016 08:22 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
>
>> who was screaming that the post was irrelevant? I certainly wasn't. :)
>>
>> At the end of the day, Linux still needs a lot of work to be considered
>> to be a viable desktop production environment.
>>
>> can you get quicken for linux? what about Peachtree? How about a full
>> office suite that can do the same things that MS office can do? what about
>> some of the other mainstream office and production apps? are there many
>> equivalents or direct replacements? THis is the primary problem I have seen
>> with linux over the years. great OS support, but lousy where it counts.
>>
>> -eric
>>
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