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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. I need... by DeathPenguin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >>What else do you need?

    Games. Though I suppose a lot of people are content with Cedega. Still, that's an awful lot of versions of Wine to have just for compatibility.

  2. Re:If you run a finance app under wine, you're a f by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What finance app can you trust 100%? The answer, of course, is none. One of the reasons they have these things called backups, you know.

  3. Re:If you run a finance app under wine, you're a f by k4rm4_p0l7c3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, lord knows those tricky floating point values are hard to get right when you translate them

    (give me a break..)

  4. 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.

    --
    "Better to be vulgar than non-existent" -Bev Henson
  5. Appgen Mybooks reads Quickbooks files by tzanger · · Score: 4, Informative

    And it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux natively. None of this WINE nonsense. Clicky.

    Not affiliated with them by any means, just a happy customer. I'm planning on eliminating AccPAC and MiSYS at my office for their Appgen Custom Suite since it too is multiplatform, modular and you can get a developer license without the hassles that AccPAC has.

  6. Quasar by GRW · · Score: 4, Informative

    For business accounting on Linux there is Quasar, which is a "full function, stand-alone business accounting package." It has both a GPL and commercial licenses.