[Leaplist] Free alternatives

[Bryan J Smith]

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 11:47 -0500, Jason Boxman wrote:
> Interesting, but woefully incomplete.  For example, the Quickbooks alternative 
> is seriously enterprisey and Web based.  A far better example, sans-payroll, 
> would be postbooks, at least if you want Open Source, too.

There's a lot of apples-to-oranges comparisons.  In general, I do _not_
like these lists.  It tends to set the wrong expectations in some cases.
In other cases, it wholly under-represents the value of the open source
solution.

E.g., MS Publisher to Scribus?  It's more like Adobe InDesign to
Scribus.

> The Quicken replacement's URL is dead.  I've been using Moneydance, which is 
> Java based, and mostly like it.  It's not Open Source, but is only $30 for a 
> perpetual license with updates.

There's also that.  BricsCAD is one solution that's worth the price
versus AutoCAD.  It's so good that AutoDesk has licensed some of their
stuff, which is a cross-license so BricsCAD has access to DWG specs.

> Probably should've mentioned gnumeric for an Excel replacement.

I think the repeat theme is the over-simplistic responses, often only
one.  He should list and comment.



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