MoneyDance vs GNUcash

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 30 December 2003 6:12 pm, someone claiming to be James McDonald 
wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:05:40PM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > On 12/30/2003 4:21 PM, I believe that Joel Hammer wrote:
> >
> > FWIW, the gnucash developers are working hard on a gnome2 port, but that
> > won't be ready for a few months, yet. It's recently undergone a surge in
> > developer input (I lurk on the gnucash-devel mailing list,) which is
> > encouraging.
>
> Makes me wonder how you would get money savy developers to put their time
> into GNUCash when they could be out programming MYOB, QuickBooks, Quicken
> <Insert Commercial Book keeping software here> for money.
>

Pretty much the same way any open source project gets developers, I guess...
FWIW, you won't find many developers of GNUCash who would think Quicken 
*anything* is "Book keeping software." Don't know anything about MYOB, but it 
appears to be (from what I could tell of myob.com) geared toward real 
business accounting. Hardly comparable to GNUCash (or Quicken, MS Money or 
even Quickbooks.) And I rather doubt any old "money savy developer" could 
just up and start hacking on *any* of those programs, anyway. It doesn't 
appear that the source code is available.

> Ohh and is GNUCash a flat file only setup or does it have a db back end?

It's default is an XML ASCII file. Deliciously editable with your favorite 
text editor. It has the ability (as mentioned in my previous e-mail) to 
connect to a PostgreSQL database.

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