Fedora 11: Finally I can ditch XP

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Vijay Gill <vijay.s.gill at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/6/21 Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Vijay Gill <vijay.s.gill at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> So far I always wanted to convince my wife to let me have Linux as
> >> main desktop and if she needs XP (for software like MS-Money, she has
> >> been entering data into it since 2003)
> >
> > You must have missed this... tell your wife to start looking at Quicken
> or
> > other F/OSS solutions...
> >
> > Microsoft discontinues MS Money
> > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10261742-56.html
> >
> > Microsoft Money ends its life on June 30
> > http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/143940
> >
> > See also:
> > Six great free alternatives to MS Money and Quicken
> >
> http://zenhabits.net/2007/05/6-great-free-alternatives-to-quicken-ms-money/
> >
>
> Hi Fernando,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> For me, it is easier said than done. If I move to Quicken it is just
> moving from one closed-source solution to another. And I have not
> found a way to migrate the Ms-Money data to other OSS apps. I am
> thinking of writing my own and migrate the data (Ms-Money can export
> data in the form of reports in XML/CSV format). The only problem is
> that I do not get time, but one day I will break those shackles too.
>
> Vijay
>

I have no experience with GNUCash are you sure there´s not a way to
automagically import data?.
Have you asked? Sometimes while an app doesn´t have a function it might be
supplied by third party add-ons, utilities, plugins, scripts, etc.

There´s also  Moneydance, which is cross-platform and loads MS Money and
Quicken files. It is written in Java. I know it works very well.
http://moneydance.com/other
screenshot:
http://moneydance.com/mac_graph_options

Cons:
it´s closed source.
you must pay for it :)

But seamless it´ll be, and cross platform as well (no need for VM or
windows).

FC

FC
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