From: "John Beamish" 

The quote that caught my eye ws "The reader first became aware of the
problem when Intuit's sunset policies forced one of his customers to
upgrade their version of Quickbooks. "

I have a microbusiness so my accountant said use a spreadsheet or, if
you're feeling adventurous, use QB but it's far more than you need.  I was
feeling adventurous (sigh).

A couple of years later I got a call from Intuit.  They were sunsetting my
version and told me that I'd have to upgrade.  I asked a few questions and
one response was "As of [can't remember the date], you will not be
able to reinstall QB if the need should arise."

I use a spreadsheet now.

On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:39:04 -0500, Rich Gauszka
 wrote:

> MS conspiracy or idiotic accounting vendors? I vote for the latter
>
> http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2007/01/accounting_vend.html
>
>
>
>
>  "I have two clients using multi-user network accounting
packages," the
> reader wrote. "One uses Quickbooks, the other uses Peachtree. In both
> cases
> upgrades to newer versions of each accounting package required I set up
> either a peer system or a dedicated server with Windows, and move away
> from
> the Linux servers I'd set up for both. The reason? Both Intuit and Sage
> Software now use .NET to develop these applications, and both are,
> according
> to their support staff, complying with Microsoft standards for their
> backend
> database components -- components which won't work on non-Microsoft
> network
> servers."
>

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