Re: open source alternatives to Quicken

["Jonathan Arnold" <user=619@nabble.blu.org>]

 ref wrote: 
> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 20:58 -0500, Al Wheeler wrote: 
>> Tom Metro wrote: 
>>> Al Wheeler wrote: 
>>>> What has worked [in Vista] is 
>>>> Quicken 2008 (I gave up on the gpl route...) 
>>> What did you try and why didn't they work for you? 
>>>  -Tom 
> 
> 
> I have tried pretty much all of them.. GNUcash was WAY too complicated, 
> and the layout was counter intuitive.... 
> The best one for my money (And I paid a small fee for a licence about 
> $49, though they do have a trial version) was MoneyDance. While it did 
> suffer from "visual style designed by engineers" which is never really 
> very good, it had pretty much everything that Quicken has, including 
> Cash, bank, and credit accounts, budgeting, direct connect to a fair 
> number of banks, check register, bill reminders, etc... 
> I found it to be pretty easy to use once I got used to 'its' way of 
> thinking... Definitely worth a download and the time to install if you 
> are looking for a *nix alternative to MSMoney or Quicken