Quicken vs. MS Money vs. GnuCash

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Thomas G. Marshall

*Without* (I sincerely hope) igniting a flame war, can anyone tell me why
they switched from one to the other, and is GnuCash ready for prime time?

I know that it all depends upon what you want to use the software for. So
here are my first pass requirements:

Basic transaction accounting
Download (synchronize account) activity with
my bank without fee (possible?)
Manage my portfolios (not required)

Bill pay is not necessary---I do that in other ways.

Thanks!
 
Thomas said:
*Without* (I sincerely hope) igniting a flame war, <SNIP>
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Uh-huh. . . a $ware question cross-posted to:

alt.comp.software.financial.quicken
microsoft.public.money
alt.comp.freeware
alt.comp.freeware.discussion

That's as intelligent as throwing a lighted match at a pool of gasoline
and "sincerely hoping" the gasoline doesn't catch fire. ;)

Susan
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Susan Bugher coughed up:
Uh-huh. . .
uh-huh...


a $ware question cross-posted to:

alt.comp.software.financial.quicken
microsoft.public.money
alt.comp.freeware
alt.comp.freeware.discussion

That's as intelligent as throwing a lighted match at a pool of
gasoline and "sincerely hoping" the gasoline doesn't catch fire. ;)
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Well geez susan, I'm sure sorry to have inconvenienced you here.

The question is related to 3 distinct software products, and furthermore,
specifically asks for the analysis undertaken in making the decision to
switch from one to the other. That is far more useful than hearing what
people specifically "like" about something, which often yields facts about a
single product in a void. This choice of ng's is the best way to find
people who have chosen one of these three over the other.
 
Well geez susan, I'm sure sorry to have inconvenienced you here.

The question is related to 3 distinct software products, and
furthermore, specifically asks for the analysis undertaken in
making the decision to switch from one to the other. That is far
more useful than hearing what people specifically "like" about
something, which often yields facts about a single product in a
void. This choice of ng's is the best way to find people who have
chosen one of these three over the other.
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Some people don't like seeing cross-posts to more than a few
newsgroups, and if the heirarchies are very different (as yours were)
then this can be doubly offensive.

My own filters are set to reading posts that are cross-posted to 2 or
fewer groups. So I guess you could say I fall into one of the above
categories.

Of the software, only GnuCash is in the freeware on-topic category. It,
AFAIK only runs on *nix OS's, the others are all Windows software or
have ports to Macintosh and are commercial products.

You might've been better off simply asking in this NG (not x-posting
which encourages flamers) "Does anyone use GnuCash? How does it compare
to other financial packages"
 
Mike said:
Of the software, only GnuCash is in the freeware on-topic category.
It, AFAIK only runs on *nix OS's, the others are all Windows software
or have ports to Macintosh and are commercial products.
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From http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v1.8/C/gnucash-guide/appendixb_general.html

B.2.1. Q: Can I run GnuCash on Windows?
A: No, GnuCash is not developed on (or for) Windows.

If you must run GnuCash from a Windows machine, your best bet is to use VNC
to run GnuCash remotely from a UNIX server. Another possibility would be to
install VMWare (www.vmware.com) on your windows machine and run a copy of
Linux within VMWare. We don't have many (any?) windows developers, so nobody
is really working hard on a port to windows....
 
*Without* (I sincerely hope) igniting a flame war, can anyone tell me why
they switched from one to the other, and is GnuCash ready for prime time?
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For portfolio accounting I use 'KBH Investor Accounting' .

The program will track the intermediate value of a short sale or of an
option write and those are fundamental investment positions. The program is
professional in nature in that it equally weights all functions. The program
is professional in nature in that it is a record of inputs and not a
superficial accounting. The program includes realized transaction matching
and the program features overall year-to-date results.

Here is a user link to the program:

http://www.kbhscape.com/kbh.htm
 
Uh-huh. . . a $ware question cross-posted to:

alt.comp.software.financial.quicken
microsoft.public.money
alt.comp.freeware
alt.comp.freeware.discussion

That's as intelligent as throwing a lighted match at a pool of gasoline
and "sincerely hoping" the gasoline doesn't catch fire. ;)
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Oh do shut up you anally retentive pillock.
 
For portfolio accounting I use 'KBH Investor Accounting' .
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[from what I gather is your site]

"This shareware version of the program is available as a no-cost
trial but should be licensed for extended use."
 
spoon2001 coughed up:
From
http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v1.8/C/gnucash-guide/appendixb_general.html

B.2.1. Q: Can I run GnuCash on Windows?
A: No, GnuCash is not developed on (or for) Windows.

If you must run GnuCash from a Windows machine, your best bet is to
use VNC to run GnuCash remotely from a UNIX server. Another
possibility would be to install VMWare (www.vmware.com) on your
windows machine and run a copy of Linux within VMWare. We don't have
many (any?) windows developers, so nobody is really working hard on a
port to windows....
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Did you rule out java?
 
As far as I know GnuCash does not run in MSWindows. Please let me know
if I am wrong on that.
 
*Without* (I sincerely hope) igniting a flame war, can anyone tell me
why they switched from one to the other, and is GnuCash ready for
prime time?

I know that it all depends upon what you want to use the software for.
So here are my first pass requirements:

Basic transaction accounting
Download (synchronize account) activity with
my bank without fee (possible?)
Manage my portfolios (not required)

Bill pay is not necessary---I do that in other ways.

Thanks!
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Ace Money Lite (which I guess is slightly crippled, but good none the
less..) is another option, although I do not think you will find many
(if any) freewares that will allow you to connect to your bank in
realtime. At best you will be able to export to the program you choose.

http://www.arachnoid.com/PLCash/index.html is Java based, but I do not
think it connects to banks, either.

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Uh-huh. . . a $ware question cross-posted to:

alt.comp.software.financial.quicken
microsoft.public.money
alt.comp.freeware
alt.comp.freeware.discussion

That's as intelligent as throwing a lighted match at a pool of gasoline
and "sincerely hoping" the gasoline doesn't catch fire. ;)

Susan
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It would help if you dropped the "bitch" act.

It is an act, isn't it?
 
Thomas said:
*Without* (I sincerely hope) igniting a flame war, can anyone tell me
why they switched from one to the other, and is GnuCash ready for
prime time?

I know that it all depends upon what you want to use the software
for. So here are my first pass requirements:

Basic transaction accounting
Download (synchronize account) activity with
my bank without fee (possible?)
Manage my portfolios (not required)

Bill pay is not necessary---I do that in other ways.

Thanks!
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Well, Thomas. I see nothing wrong with you posting this. I have tried MS
Money, Quicken and GNU Cash, but both MS Money and GNU Cash were awhile
back. I have retreated to Quicken (currently 2004). Basic reason was GNU was
too primitive for my tastes and MS Money took too many resources. Simple as
that.
 
FWIW, I switched from Quicken to Money because Money handles options trading
and Quicken doesn't. I'm using Money Deluxe 2003. It's not perfect, but I've
avoided upgrading because it sounds like I'd be inviting problems. I
download transactions from some institutions, but not others. The ones that
don't work, or don't work right, I fix by hand.
 
Well, Thomas. I see nothing wrong with you posting this. I have tried MS
Money, Quicken and GNU Cash, but both MS Money and GNU Cash were awhile
back. I have retreated to Quicken (currently 2004). Basic reason was GNU was
too primitive for my tastes and MS Money took too many resources. Simple as
that.
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Have you tried MoneyDance?
 
Victor said:
Have you tried MoneyDance?
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OOps that was it Money Dance; not GNU Cash as I see GNU cash is a Linux only
app. At the time I used it (about 1 year ago) I was considering switching to
Money, but ended up staying with Quicken as Money hogged to many resources.
 
I just converted from MS Money 2K Deluxe to Quicken 2005 XG. Primary
reason is that MS Money hasn't offered a deluxe version for the
Canadian Market in over 5 years and the basic version offered by MS
didn't do what I wanted it to do. Conversion to Quicken has not been
painless, however. I am still trying to enter in all of the data
accumulated in MS Money 2K into Quicken. There are no file conversion
utilities available to do this for some unknown reason.

DGD said:
*Without* (I sincerely hope) igniting a flame war, can anyone tell me why
they switched from one to the other, and is GnuCash ready for prime time?

I know that it all depends upon what you want to use the software for. So
here are my first pass requirements:

Basic transaction accounting
Download (synchronize account) activity with
my bank without fee (possible?)
Manage my portfolios (not required)

Bill pay is not necessary---I do that in other ways.

Thanks!
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Onedoctortoanother:"Ifthisismyrectalthermometer,wherethehell'smypen???"
 
Thomas said:
*Without* (I sincerely hope) igniting a flame war, can anyone tell me why
they switched from one to the other, and is GnuCash ready for prime time?
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Thomas,

Contrary to what has been said, GnuCash can run on all UNIX systems, not
just Linux. A long time ago I had built the binaries for SGI IRIX which
atleast for many years were available for download from GnuCash's web site.

So I started off on GnuCash, and then exported my data to Money...I
think. Can't remember because this was about 3-4 years ago. My issue
was that GnuCash required too much effort to build and
configure...eventually I reached a point where I could not build it on
my aging SGI Indy and I decided to try out Money which was part of a
freebate deal with TaxCut. Since then I'm using Money Deluxe.
 
Thomas said:
Did you rule out java?
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I looked at the Gnucash website ... I see no indication that there is a Java
version of this program. If you find otheriwse, please post a link, I'd
like to have a look at the program.
 
Is Quicken free?
H Gohel said:
Thomas,

Contrary to what has been said, GnuCash can run on all UNIX systems, not
just Linux. A long time ago I had built the binaries for SGI IRIX which
atleast for many years were available for download from GnuCash's web
site.

So I started off on GnuCash, and then exported my data to Money...I think.
Can't remember because this was about 3-4 years ago. My issue was that
GnuCash required too much effort to build and configure...eventually I
reached a point where I could not build it on my aging SGI Indy and I
decided to try out Money which was part of a freebate deal with TaxCut.
Since then I'm using Money Deluxe.
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