 | | From: | acalcium at gmail.com | | Subject: | Intuit UK kills Quicken and TaxCalc | | Date: | 17 Jan 2005 15:50:20 -0800 |
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 | Info only...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/17/quicken_killed_off/
Wonder if this is a global direction...
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| | From: | Gameover | | Subject: | Re: Intuit UK kills Quicken and TaxCalc | | Date: | 18 Jan 2005 01:58:05 -0800 |
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| This is interesting. I have often wondered about entering this market
with some of my own software. There aren't many good personal finance
packages around, especially with Australia in mind. Mainly quicken
personal and MS Money (which isn't so good for Australia ).
I personally use a mash of excel spreadsheets and some of my own
accounting software.
If quicken is killed off, what personal finance/tax/accounting software
is there to fill the gap?
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| | From: | Timothy | | Subject: | Re: Intuit UK kills Quicken and TaxCalc | | Date: | 18 Jan 2005 18:41:59 -0800 |
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| Gameover wrote:
> If quicken is killed off
Good riddance, I would say. Last time I bought a copy of Quicken was
back in 2002, and it not only required activation, but mandatory
registration. Give 'em fake details? Yeah, as long as you don't forget
them when you need to reactivate. I recall punching in my real phone
number with the intention of just giving them my PO Box. Oops. They had
a database linking your phone number to your address, and their machine
*told me* what my address was.
> what personal finance/tax/accounting software
> is there to fill the gap?
Been using GnuCash ever since, though I had to install a Linux on its
own partition so I could run it. It doesn't have Quicken's eye candy or
apparent ease of use, but it does the job equally as well, if not
better.
Tim
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