On Monday 22 April 2002 19:35, Alex Daniloff wrote:
Hello,
The list goes on and on. I only have Win2K installed to do the few
odd tasks
that I cannot do in Linux - for example my bank has custom software
that is
Windows only for example, and I cannot get it to work right using
WINE.
Are you using M$ Money for your banking needs? I couldn't make M$ Money work with WINE, nether I could find a financial application to substitute M$ Money. Looks like Linux doesn't have strong position on personal financial software market. Alex
Nope. I use Moneydance to track my spending - something I do way too much of since the Euro arrived. No MS Money here... haven't used that travesty of programming since 1998. When I discovered Moneydance, I bought a license. It does everything I need for a home checkbook balancer... basically all most people use MS Money for. There's lots of Linux based personal finance software... Moneydance, Gnucash etc. If you move a step up, The Kompany has some interesting looking products (i've never tried them though)... there is a company in Canada that provides Point Of Sale software for Linux. If you look around, there is actually a fair bit of finantial software kicking aorund. My bank - ABN Amro in the Netherlands - has, in the past, been seriously xenophobic about using the internet banking thing. (They have full internet banking now, but I haven't got around to applying for access yet.) They designed their own "HomeNet" software for Windows. It is a custom dialup package that allows you to see account activity and pay bills through an odd email type system. When I fire it up under WINE, it does run... sort of, but refuses to contact the bank. It fails with some error - conveniently in Dutch, and my Dutch is not up to where it should be. C.