[Discuss] Finance software for Linux

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 01/13/2015 10:16 AM, john saylor wrote:
> bonjour
>
> On 1/13/15 8:56 , Rich Braun wrote:
>> GnuCash, I'm afraid, is even farther behind on the UI usability front.
> works for me, but one size does not fit all.
>
>> It looks like the end of the road for desktop finance; the future is cloud services. But really, I'm a cloud-security developer: who can possibly trust the cloud with personal-finance data?
> the people who trust the cloud are the ones who don't really understand
> it ... once it's on those "cloud servers", your control is gone. and all
> it takes is one careless temp, or disgruntled dba.
>
Mike Rhodin, IBM Senior VP and general manager of the Watson Group one
stated that "the cloud" is simply the old mainframe way of doing things,
but they had to use different terminology. But conceptually, you are
running on some company's computers located somewhere. They may have
some redundancy. But, you have to trust their security and reliability.
The software my group has is very complex risk management software that
costs upwards of 6 figures. Some of our software is now available to
smaller companies on the cloud.

But, I think you make an excellent point is that all it takes is a
disgruntled or careless employee.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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