[Discuss] Finance software for Linux

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 01/14/2015 09:31 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> 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
>
>
Certainly, modern networking technology has enabled this technology. The
Arpanet really did not exists until 1969. And certainly cloud computing
today makes this technology almost universally accessible. But
conceptually, when you run a program on the cloud or store data on the
cloud, you are running on someone else's computers.

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