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To: David Colvin who wrote (48268)	4/24/2002 5:08:10 PM
From: LKO	Read Replies (1) of 64865

p.s. Can you tell that I like Quicken? David, I have read with interest your enthusiastic Quicken advocacy so I have some comments/questions/requests and wishful thinking directed your way. First a "technical" issue s and then some "political" ones. - Does Quicken handle option transactions (puts, calls etc) ? Now to get to the "political" ones. Many years ago on an old Windoze98 box from HP that came bundled with a basic version of Quicken and Microsoft Money. I guess the game is to give you a basic version for free to entice you to buy a paid version which is fine by me. I tried Quicken. I entered the data and test drove it. Then I decided to test drive the Microsoft Money and if I remember correctly, voila, without asking me it converted all the fine data files from quicken (.QIF?) to its own format (.MYM?) and the pain of reentering data prevenented me from ever thinking of becoming Quicken user again. With that background, I will now ask the loaded questions. - Have you tried Microsoft Money ? I have heard that it is able to understand Quicken data ;-) and you should be able to compare the features. Will you please be a guinea pig for us (after backing up your data files please) ? Will appreciate any pros/cons of Quicken vs Microsoft Money. - With Microsoft Money as competition, and paid-for DOJ, how long you think Quicken will last ? I have heard some stories of people investing time in learning Lotus-1-2-3 and later having to learn Excel. :-p. No PC application competition of Microsoft ever survives with more than a single digit market share when this small nuisance of anti-trust goes away and life returns to "normal". So why should we bother with Quicken when their is a pushed-by-Monopolysoft equivalent application available ? BillG testified a few days ago how too many choices for us customers are not good for us and he knows best. Any comments ? - Are you a Linux-type ? I have read good propaganda from the Open-sores-software proponents at gnucash.org how their software (which can read QUicken data files) is better and does "double-entry-bookeeping" (whatever that means) as opposed to Quicken that does "single-entry-bookkeeping" only. Would appreciate if someone with more clue could eveluate that. I know that my 2GHz Win2K Pentium does not run my word processor faster than my 0.5GHz Win98 Pentium and I afraid this "double-entry-bookkeeping" etc may also not be better than Quicken and I may be debugging someones fix-it-yourself Linux application software. Will help us if you could also evaluate that if possible now that you have your data in Quicken format files. Sorry for this long post full of unreasonable requests from you, but then we have to push and see what we can get away with. <G> Do what you can and let us know whatever comments you have. Take care. LKO

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