Re: financial software

["Tom Metro-12" <user=71@nabble.blu.org>]

 Rich Braun wrote: 
> Yeah, I looked at Gnu cash a couple years ago. 

I'll repeat my earlier recommendation for Moneydance. It isn't open 
source, isn't perfect, but it is cross-platform, seems fairly capable, 
has a polished UI, and has a small team of developers working on it and 
supporting it through a mailing list. Unless you plan to hack the code 
yourself, the experience might not be all that different from using an 
open source tool. 

But Moneydance might be a tad light weight as a Quickbooks replacement. 
Moneydance is aimed at replacing Quicken/Money. 


> Give Gnu cash another decade or so before enough of the online 
> services stabilize to make an open-source tool as useful as one of 
> the proprietary ones... 

True. There are a few open formats for financial data, but of course 
Intuit does whatever it can to force banks to use their proprietary 
formats and protocols. I see discussion on the Moneydance list of banks 
that have "upgraded" to Intuit's latest protocols, and now no longer 
support Moneydance. 

The best recourse is to exert what pressure you can on your bank to 
change by switching to another bank that does support open formats and 
letting your old bank know why you switched. 

  -Tom 

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