[Discuss] Finance software for Linux

[Bill Bogstad]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

This isn't just mainframe computing, it is akin to commercial time
sharing/service bureau computing.   Admittedly for many people they
were one & the same, since most businesses couldn't afford to own
their own mainframe; but I would still consider them different
computing styles.

Bill Bogstad