Charles,
Unfortunately, nothing purely open source
exactly duplicates QuickBooks. I've been looking
for years! There are very good accounting
packages for Linux, but none are exactly open
source. Another thing, when I hear "replacement
for QuickBooks", the unspoken assumption is that
it will use the native QuickBooks formats for an
outside accountant to use. That's a very
difficult task to accomplish legally.
Latest versions are a weird embedded Sybase
iAnywhere implementation. Work is being done on
a native Max OSX version - may be ready, I'm not
sure. I've heard rumors of QuickBooks releasing
a native Linux version of QuickBooks on the
QuickBooks forums, but so far, nothing
substantial. Since they moved to the Sybase
iAnywhere SQL engine, it should be a
relatively(?) easy move, and if Microsoft has
finally pushed them far enough w/ the IE7 for XP
"critical update" debacle, maybe they'll finally
get smart.
-Greg
> Subject:
> replacement for QuickBooks?
> From:
> "Charles-H. Schulz" <
charles-h.schulz@...>
> Date:
> Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:06:18 +0200
> To:
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> To:
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> Hello,
>
> I have an friend based in the US who really starts to get interested in
> open source for his small business. He asked me if there was an Open
> source replacement for QuickBooks.... Do you know any?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charles.
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