[geeks] Personal Finance Software

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> Right now, I keep track of my personal finances through a giant custom
>>> spreadsheet, but it's starting to get a bit, let's say, *unwieldy*.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of any personal finance software for any of the Open
>>> Source OSes?  If the software is also Open Source, more the better.
>> Moneydance is closed source but runs on Linux and OS X as well as 
>> Windows.  I love it.
> 
> And Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86, several *BSDs, and even, wait for it OS/2!

Excellent.  I actually wanted to use it on a NetBSD machine.

> Solaris Sparc - I'll have to look at that...
> 
> Link to various platforms supported: http://moneydance.com/other
> 
> I guess they achieve this multi-platform compatibility by using some alien 
> technology caled, uhm, Java - anyone know anything about that? Last I heard, 
> it was hard to actually *print* from inside Java, but that was some time 
> ago...

I've been known to write printing code in Java at work.  8-)

I'm off to check how much it costs.

Peace...  Sridhar