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Idea #480: Patch WINE for Quickbooks and Peachtree accounting

Written by andydread the 29 Feb 08 at 02:11. Category: Office. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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This needs to be done for the current versions of Ptree and QBpro. This is the main brick wall we see over and over when migrating offices and small businesses to Ubuntu. I wish people wouldn't use such software for their accounting but they are married to them and so are their accountants :(
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Written by andydread the 29 Feb 08 at 02:11.
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dburanen wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 02:37
+1 for quickbooks support!

sci-fi guy wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 03:19
This idea should be submitted to the Wine project, not Ubuntu.

tbrminsanity wrote on the 29 Apr 08 at 16:33
Someone also needs to talk to these companies to get their software ported to Linux. Lack of good accounting software is hurting Linux and it is almost impossible to get an open source tax program because the market and desire is too small (the tax laws in the US are different from Canada, which are different then the UK, and so forth). It would be great if these companies were encouraged to make software that ran off Java and could be run locally via a web browser. That way ANY OS could run the software. This would increase their sales and won't cause them too much extra work.

glotz wrote on the 3 Oct 08 at 13:19
All you need http://www.gnucash.org/

Auzy wrote on the 3 Oct 08 at 13:21
Would you trust your tax though being calculated with a buggy implementation of windows?


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