Fedora 11: Finally I can ditch XP

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Vijay Gill <vijay.s.gill at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 2009/6/21 Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com>:
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>> > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Vijay Gill <vijay.s.gill at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> >> 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
>>
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> 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 :
>

$40 and no yearly fee afaik.

FC
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