[newbie] Re: Quickbooks on wine

2004-12-26 Thread John Zoetebier
JR wrote: Has anyone tried Quickbooks on wine or crossover? It's the only thing stopping my mates buisness from switching. Theres noting on the web about it. I know it would probably install fine, but I really want to know if it will 'work'. I dont know enough about the package to test it

Re: [newbie] Re: Quickbooks on wine

2004-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 Dec 2004 05:47, John Zoetebier wrote: JR wrote: Has anyone tried Quickbooks on wine or crossover? It's the only thing stopping my mates buisness from switching. Theres noting on the web about it. I know it would probably install

Re: [newbie] Re: Quickbooks on wine

2004-12-26 Thread Edward Holcroft
Have you tried Cubit Accounting? It's a South African product that has accounting and payroll function and is GPL. See www.cubit.co.za. Google shows quite a few experiences with Quickbooks running under wine and Crossover Office. CXOffice 4 has native support for Quickbooks 2000, a status they

Re: [newbie] Re: Quickbooks on wine

2004-12-26 Thread JR
Thankyou for your suggestions John, Anne and Ed. I do know that as he is a sole trader, a payroll feature is not required. However his computer skills are quite limited, and he is old so he doesnt (or 'can't' to use his own words) learn a new system. He had to be taught to use Quickbooks. I