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Crossover 4.2 Runs Quickbooks on Linux

Posted by timothy on from the whittling-away dept.

Memorize writes "What's keeping you from switching your desktop to Linux? Linux has been able to run MS Office under Wine for a while now, but Codeweavers just announced Crossover 4.2 with support for Intuit Quicken and Quickbooks. I know that lack of a good bookkeeping app (other than Gnucash) has been keeping a lot of people from switching. It supports iTunes, too. What else do you need?"

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  1. Mainly just painless installation by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Probably the main thing stopping me from switching is the same thing stopping me from trying out XP. I don't want to format my hard drive, and I've only got one partition, which is NTFS. In theory I should still be able to install linux into a file in the NTFS filesystem, but I haven't had the time to bother with this.

  2. Not a huge need for Quicken.. by SocialEngineer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My mother uses MoneyDance to do her accounting schtuff. She loves it. Plus, it's available for Linux, OSX, and Windows. She switched to it from Quicken's software a while back.

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    "Better to be vulgar than non-existent" -Bev Henson
  3. What else I need by masterOfTheObivous · · Score: 2, Interesting
    What else do you need?

    I'll tell you what else I need- support for Macromedia and Adobe's license authentication "features" present in Adobe Creative Suite and Macromedia Studio MX 2004. I have to resort to using VMWare in order to use these apps; I would love nothing more than to cut the tie with Windows completely. If CrossOver could do this, I'd buy a couple hundred copies for my company.

    Do you hear me, Codeweavers? The instant you get this, people will be shouting praise from the rooftops. Bravo on getting Quickbooks to work, but now's the time to focus on Adobe and Macromedia's products as well.

  4. I've been waiting for this by doodleboy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My work computer is an nt4 server box which serves as the office PDC and which I also use to do Quickbooks related stuff. The PDC stuff is no problem thanks to Samba, but some of the other people I work with only know Quickbooks and are otherwise totally computer illiterate. There is no possibility of switching to some alternate accounting package.

    Also, Microsoft has killed support for nt server a couple of months ago to drive sales of new licenses. We're behind a firewall, I have every service turned off that I don't need, I never use IE or OE, but at some point I'm going to have to move off nt while still running Quickbooks. Normally that would mean a new version of windows, but by the time you factor in a license for w2k3 server plus client licenses and new hardware to run it on, it's expensive as hell.

    In addition to the high cost I just don't trust Windows' stability or security. I've used unix/linux for 15 years or so, so I can tweak it if something isn't working like I want. It's not perfect but I believe it's more stable and secure than windows.

    Quickbooks is a huge app in the small business sector, and right now thousands of small businesses are trying to figure out how to deal with the end of support for nt. Now that it supports Quickbooks, Crossover Office will probably enable a lot of migrations off nt for shops with access to linux expertise. Not to mention generate sales for the folks at Codeweavers. A smart move if you ask me.

  5. Crossover does NOT support all of Office. by Omni+Magnus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Crossover office does not support Office 2003 or Access XP. This could be holding some people back.