Why Intuit should have an Open Source version of QuickBooks...
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Wed Nov 10 21:17:01 EST 2004
On Nov 10, 2004, at 19:26, Hewitt Tech wrote:
> Oddly QuickBooks will happily
> work with a Linux fileserver running Samba but Intuit won't support
> users in
> that configuration. I can understand them not wanting to support Linux
> proper but it puzzles me why they don't add Linux fileservers as a
> supported
> configuration.
Samba doesn't work out-of-the-box with Quickbooks when multiple users
have the database open. You have to do something like, IIRC,:
[share]
oplocks = No
level2 oplocks = No
strict locking = Yes
and that means editing system files, and that means explaining vi or
emacs keybindings to someone on the phone and, well, you can understand
their position. It's hard for them to say, "we support Linux servers
but not if you're clueless," so they just say, "we only support Windows
servers." So, people with Linux servers lie and say they've got an NT4
fileserver if it comes up.
This all implies nasty OS-dependent code in Quickbooks, and who really
needs hackish open-source Windows code?
I'm using SQL-Ledger myself, but I understand GNUCash is making moves
in the QuickBooks direction with recent releases. I'm not particularly
impressed with SQL-Ledger's ease-of-use. Anybody here using GNUCash
for their SMB accounting?
-Bill
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