Intuit, the makers of Quickbooks, Quicken, and TurboTax, are jumping on the Linux bandwagon. Well, OK, they aren’t really jumping, but putting their toe in the water in the Linux server realm.
They announced that their server product, Quickbooks Enterprise, will be released to work on Linux Servers.
One of the biggest issues for nonprofits in terms of adoption of Linux has been the lack of availability of ready-for-primetime applications like accounting. Intuit, the 800 pound gorilla in that space, moving to Linux is a great sign for the future. I certainly hope that a Linux version for Quickbooks on the desktop will be a next step. It would be a big step, but it would be a good step. Yes, it’s proprietary, and I certainly wish that someone would write an open source worthy competitor for Quickbooks, but they haven’t yet, so a good second choice is Quickbooks itself running on Linux.
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There is now an open source competitor to Quickbooks. Check out PostBooks at http://www.xtuple.com.
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