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Quciken 2001[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#3)
by srynas on Tue Jan 18, 2005 at 09:29:29 AM PDT

I wimped out and ordered the "new" version. I am afraid that the news may really be worse than reported in Ed's column. For example, Intuit does not tell you that in upgrading to the new program that your data files become unusable should you decide to resume with the old program. From reading the product description on Intuit's webpage, several of the features on Quicken Deluxe 2001 may have evaporated as a means of forcing you to upgrade to the "Premier" version. Quicken 2001, when it is reinstalled, requires an "update", I assume that your ability to reinstall an old version of Quicken will also disappear. Additionally, the program seems of have evolved into a means to deliver advertising to you AND to encourage you to subscribe on a fee basis for "other services". What is also irritating about all of this is that you have a working program where Intuit is maliciously spending program resources, time, and money to stop your program from working.

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Any good alternatives to Quicken out there?[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#4)
by Anonymous User on Tue Jan 18, 2005 at 09:58:53 AM PDT

Quicken 98 was great.  I used it for years and it did everything I needed it to.  I even continued using it past the end of support when you could no longer reinstall and download patches for it, but instead had to copy it entirely from one HD to another when upgrading your system.

Finally I broke down and gave a new version a try... It's either Quicken 2003 or 2004.  It's less customizeable, does some very annoying things automatically with no ability to disable them, and insists on displaying little ads for various Quicken services they want you to buy.

So... what I'm wondering now is, what alternatives are out there?  Is there a good open source alternative that will import Quicken data files?

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Yes, there is at least one[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#13)
by Anonymous User on Tue Jan 18, 2005 at 11:13:39 AM PDT

I've been using gnucash (www.gnucash.org) for about 3 years. It is a double entry accounting program that can import qif, and also get stock quotes along with many other features. But it is only available for OSX, Linux, and other flavors of UNIX. If you can't or won't switch, try looking through sourceforge.net. There is a large number of financial projects there, and many for windows, but I haven't personally looked at anything that doesn't run on Linux.

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Gnucash and banks[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#22)
by Anonymous User on Tue Jan 18, 2005 at 01:51:37 PM PDT

I wonder what it would take the major banks to get involved with development of gnucash. Banks should realize that Intuit isn't their friend. They could do themselves a big favor by working on developing gnucash, including a windows version, and free themselves of Intuit. For the record, I use Quicken 2001 and because I don't use online banking I have no plans to upgrade. From what I've read about 2005, there isn't a compelling reason to switch.

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GnuCash[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#26)
by Anonymous User on Tue Jan 18, 2005 at 04:33:10 PM PDT

I don't think that banks will care enough to support GnuCash. Like Intuit, they're goal is to make money, not to make banking convenient for small, individual customers. I wouldn't be optimistic about help from the banks.

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Banks should worry about Quicken[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#57)
by Anonymous User on Thu Feb 17, 2005 at 07:50:26 AM PDT

I'm a freelance Notary Public in addition to being a programmer, and one of the things I do as a Notary is that on occasion I get orders from banks and mortgage companies to go out to a customer's home or office to witness them signing the paperwork. (Certain documents in a loan transaction must be notarized, which requires it be done in the presence of the Notary.) One of the companies that is offering home loans is Quicken Loans. Now I'm not sure if they are simply a mortgage company or they are a bank, but it means Quicken is a competitor of the banks that use its on-line service. And in view of how fairly easy it is for a bank to set up its own on-line service (based on the number that are doing it, and on it apparently not being all that difficult to design a web site to allow on-line banking), tying in with Quicken is on the order of competitors to Microsoft allowing it to dictate terms for them, the result being eventually your competitor will eat you alive.

I think financial institutions need to have serious considerations about how Quicken/Intuit runs its business, before they run them out of it.

Paul Robinson
paul at paul-robinson.us



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yes[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#119)
by maderikapapa on Fri Jun 27, 2008 at 09:01:05 PM PDT

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Alternatives to Quicken[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#14)
by vroberts on Tue Jan 18, 2005 at 12:12:26 PM PDT

I just switched from Quicken 2002 to MoneyDance, www.moneydance.com. I am using Win98SE but MOneyDance runs under Windows, Linux and I think Mac OS. The interface is a bit different but all the functions I need, including stock quote downloads, are there and the program is "clean". You can try it for free to see how it imports your QIF file.

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moneydance is nice[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#30)
by Anonymous User on Tue Jan 18, 2005 at 06:51:56 PM PDT

I've been using moneydance for years on Mac OS X (and for a little bit on OS 9 prior to that), it's very nice. Does everything I need (which isn't much) and the developer is very responsive to bug reports and feature requests. It does online banking -- mostly with banks using OFX rather than quicken's just different enough to require a license agreement QFX. My bank doesn't support either so I can't say how well that part works.

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yes[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#104)
by maderikapapa on Fri Jun 27, 2008 at 06:36:38 PM PDT

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yes[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#145)
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yes[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#154)
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