<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Butash</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net">michael@butash.net</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:10 PM<br>Subject: Re: MacBook<br>To: Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com">bmike1@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>
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<div>They're web services, Xero.com and
FreshBooks.com, just hit the sites. Sorry, probably should have
been clearer about that.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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On 08/25/2016 10:24 AM, Michael wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hey Michael.... how do you get <span style="font-size:12.8px">Xero and Freshbooks?</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:49 PM,
Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Solution: Replace them. I did, it is possible.<br>
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-mb<br>
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On 08/24/2016 08:22 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:<br>
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who was screaming that the post was irrelevant? I
certainly wasn't. :)<br>
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At the end of the day, Linux still needs a lot of work to
be considered to be a viable desktop production
environment.<br>
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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.<br>
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-eric<br>
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