Gnucash vs. QuickBooks

[Robert Smits]

On Monday 27 November 2006 15:31, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quoting "Denise M. Kauf" <DMK at ffhm.com>:
> > I would like to get opinions from Gnucash users on how Gnucash compares
> > to QuickBooks. I am trying to help someone determine if they can start
> > using Gnucash instead of QuickBooks. What are the pros and cons of
> > Gnucash compared to QuickBooks. Can any user comfortably use Gnucash or
> > do you need to be a programmer? Thanks.
>
> For one, Quickbooks doesn't run on Linux..  But keep in mind that
> QuickBook is a commercial application with lots of paid developers
> working full time to add features and make the application work well.
> GnuCash has a dearth of developers working on it, so it's not quite
> as nice and easy to use as QB for certain operations.

Actually, you can use QuickBooks with Cross-Over Office under a variety of 
Linux distros.

Look at the Codeweavers site to see which versions of Quickbooks are 
supported.

You sure don't need to be a computer programmer, and version 2 looks much 
better than 1.9.

Bob
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