[Leaplist] QuickBooks on Linux now

[Damien McKenna]

On Jun 14, 2007, at 10:31 PM, patrick wrote:
> Now, Quickbooks is issuing a Linux server version!
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5374

BTW, this doesn't mean that they're doing a Linux version of the  
Quickbooks desktop application, rather that they're releasing a  
version of their Sybase SQL Anywhere-driven server component (itself  
already available for Linux) that will work with the Quickbooks  
Enterprise application (costs a minimum of $3000 according to the  
article).  Kind of like how the non-Enterprise editions of Quickbooks  
share a single database file and that file can be put on a Linux  
server (or anything else with SMB sharing), this allows you to keep  
the data for the Enterprise edition centrally on a Linux server.  So  
to run Quickbooks you're still going to either have to dual-boot, run  
a virtualization system e.g. VMWare, run an emulation system (wine,  
CrossOver Office) and hope it works, or just keep a separate machine  
for it.

Not trying to rain on your parade, rather just want to make sure  
people don't read more into it.

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