Dumb terminals

Carl Parrish plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
11 Oct 2002 17:02:41 -0700


Also since I didn't hear you say you needed an opensource solution you
may want to check out mybooks. 

http://www.appgen.com/products/mybooks.html

Carl P. 

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 08:14, Ted Gould wrote:
> Well, that's a longer question than you might think :)
> 
> There is a piece of software call WINE, which is a port of the W32 API
> to Unix.  It will run many Windows programs.  I don't know about
> quickbooks.  But, you call also buy a closed source version of WINE from
> a company called Codeweavers, and they will guarantee that it will run
> Office and Quicken (I realize that's not Quickbooks, but they should be
> close) for $50 US.  You should probably try the free version first
> though.
> 
> As far as Quickbooks for Linux, I don't know of an application that has
> as much of the business focus as Quickbooks.  GnuCash has promised alot
> of it in their next version, but I haven't seen any timeline on that
> yet.
> 
> Links:
> Wine:  http://www.winehq.com/
> Codeweavers:  http://www.codeweavers.com/
> GnuCash:  http://www.gnucash.org
> 
> 		Have fun,
> 			Ted
> 
> PS - For those who though that the whole software licenses thing was
> fun, you should look at the Codeweavers/WINE relationship.  I think that
> is the most complex licensing debacle in free software today.
> 
> On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 23:35, cliff rogers wrote:
> > Many thanks to all who responded. I will check out the sites I have been
> > given. I need to ask a kind of stinky question now, knowing that this is a
> > penguin site, is there any way to run M$ Office or QuickBooks from Linux?
> > These are the software packages he has told us the so-called client is
> > currently using, and if not, are there Linux compatible packages that would
> > be similar enough to migrate over quickly by reasonably computer literate
> > bookies.... oooooppppssss I mean book keepers and managers? Thanks again for
> > the help.   Cliff
> > 
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