KMyMoney vs Gnucash

[Mike or Penny Novack]

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>Finally, afaict, KMyMoney is not suitable for (smaller) businesses and if GC
>could, somehow, provide feature to have quotes (besides invoices), it would
>extend its usage quite far.
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But this is precisely the sort of request that indicates confusion 
(about what an ACCOUNTING application is).

Please, I am NOT meaning to imply that being to produce quotes wouldn't 
be a very desirable component of say a "business system for the 
contractor", a more complete system that might USE gnucash for its 
accounting component. Just like a "business system for the small retail 
business" should include a "pint of sales" system feeding an inventory 
system application and feeding say gnucash handing the accounting. ETC.

But none of these things SHOULD be part of the accounting package itself 
(gnucash). The reason all of these things should be separate parts is 
that which parts needed/useful for the business depends upon what sort 
of business. Some other examples of pieces would be "billable hours" 
accounting for professional businesses that do that or "commissions 
systems" for businesses paying sales persons that way, etc.

Understand? Coordinating all these parts (and recruiting teams to 
produce parts) would be the proper task of a "business systems" open 
source project. Might start out able to support only some sorts of 
businesses and would be the place to submit requests "add the bit I need 
for my sort of business) and this project might well USE gnucash for its 
accounting piece. Business systems involve far more than accounting and 
backwards to think of them as belonging INSIDE the accounting part.

Michael D Novack