Quicken Personal for linux

Posted by Chris Taylor on July 19, 2008, 11:35 pm

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is there a home version of Quicken for linux
Chris Taylor

Posted by bjn on July 20, 2008, 7:53 am

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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:35:32 +1000, Chris Taylor

>is there a home version of Quicken for linux

To date, Intuit has been stubbornly pro-Windows, to the extent of releasing
Mac versions of Quicken that cannot even read the data files of Quicken for
Windows.

Your best bet would be Wine.

Posted by XS11E on July 20, 2008, 3:33 pm

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> Your best bet would be Wine.

Informatin here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=107

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Posted by gregg on July 20, 2008, 7:53 am

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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:35:32 +1000, Chris Taylor

>is there a home version of Quicken for linux

>Chris Taylor

No, but there is a market waiting for it to happen. I haven't
successfully gotten Quicken to run in Linux with WINE either. When
people switch 100% to Linux they abandon Quicken for the alternatives.
It is a shame that they have to for both the user and Quicken. While
Linux is a small percent of the market, there may possibly be a good
percentage of this smaller market that would be interested.

Gregg

Posted by gregg on July 21, 2008, 6:19 am

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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:56:29 -0700, Andrew DeFaria

>gregg wrote:

>> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:35:32 +1000, Chris Taylor

>>> is there a home version of Quicken for linux

>>> Chris Taylor

>> No, but there is a market waiting for it to happen. I haven't

>> successfully gotten Quicken to run in Linux with WINE either. When

>> people switch 100% to Linux they abandon Quicken for the alternatives.

>> It is a shame that they have to for both the user and Quicken. _While

>> Linux is a small percent of the market_,

>Bingo! And that's the exact reason why Intuit doesn't pursue it! What's

>the shame here is that there isn't anybody on Linux who can produce a

>good enough product to compete with Quicken (and spare me the Gnucash!

>Without good support for online banking what's the point?)

>> there may possibly be a good percentage of this smaller market that

>> would be interested.

>Who cares? If the market is small enough, and it is, it really doesn't

>matter if you got 100% of the small market! It's too small to start with!

Actually, there is a large enough market to explore, but that is
beside the point. GNU Cash is not a bad option and I think Moneydance
is pretty nice. So you don't get automatic updates. You merely have to
download and import files and use bill pay online. At least the bank
doesn't give you a surcharge.

I am not one to say that Linux is ready to explode on the scene, but
market share is increasing some with the influx of SLCM's or super low
cost machines that are entering the market. Really, its no big deal
whether Quicken enters the market or not. I guess the hard core Linux
advocates would probably not be interested anyway. I like Quicken its
a good product, but not a necessity.