Quicken Personal 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.

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

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?)

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!

Informatin here:

got it to work this officeXcopy I think it is, it all works just fine thanks for all the input

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.

No that's exactly the point. If there were large enough markets to explore Intuit would be exploring them.

The real market disagrees with you.

What a bother!

Yeah you get what you pay for I guess...

Great because I for one have been hearing that for years. Listen I work on Linux and Unix machines all the time. I grew up on them, not Windows. I wish they would explode on the scene. However they aren't - period - end of story. Perhaps that will change some time in the future but for now that is not the case - as much as you want it to be, it's not.

Actually for many it is a big deal.

The hard core Linux advocates would not be satisfied unless it had a command line interface!

Perhaps to you but to many, many others it is a necessity. (Either it or something better).

Great because I for one have been hearing that for years. Listen I work on Linux and Unix machines all the time. I grew up on them, not Windows. I wish they would explode on the scene. However they aren't - period - end of story. Perhaps that will change some time in the future but for now that is not the case - as much as you want it to be, it's not.

I never said I wanted Linux to explode on the market.

Gregg

Yeah and I never said you said that. I said that I wish they would explode on the scene. So then why do you mention it?

Meantime - learn how to quote properly!

Since you said, "as much as you want it to be, it's not," just wanted you to know you can't read my mind and I didn't say it. Understand English?

I can quote just fine pinhead. Just using a poor newsreader at the time and didn't feel you were worth the effort.

The first is arguable, but the second point is right on.

jg