MoneyDance vs GNUcash

[David A. Bandel]

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On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:19:46 -0500
Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:

> 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.

If you need an accounting program for a business (like Quickbooks,
Peachtree, etc.) look at SQL-Ledger (http://sql-ledger.com/).  It uses
PostgreSQL as a backend.  It's come a long way.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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