![]() ![]() From a user perspective, it is a crap situation, but I've seen enough old systems kept crawling along to not condemn them out of hand. Without knowing the background, it is impossible to say if they were just dragging their feet or whether dropping the product completely is the more economical solution. One of the biggest problems was that some of the code was bought-in from a company that went bankrupt in 1996, so there was no expertise for it and no real way to port it to something newer. In the end, the lack of RAID drivers for modern hardware for the old SUSE forced them to address the problem, but it took a lot of effort and they had to put a freeze of new features and customer requests for over 2 years, because the whole programming staff was busy converting the system to the new version. It was so wonky that the company was selling complete systems in 2015 based on a version of SUSE from 1999/2000, because the code "just about worked" and the programmers were too scared to address the issue of porting it to a more modern version of Linux. I've seen code written in the 90s that was just patched together. Chances are it isn't even written in Object C or Swift, it is probably written in COBOL, Lightspeed Pascal or something similar, with a bunch of kludges to keep it running on PowerPC OS X and then on Intel. It can often be very difficult, if you have an old, legacy codebase. I’m leaning toward exporting my AccountEdge files to MoneyWorks, but am very eager to get input from other long-time users of AccountEdge.Re: How can it take MULTIPLE YEARS to go 64 bit? ![]() I’ve considered that and have also considered buying AccountEdge Pro for Windows (which one buys outright rather than subscribing) + CrossOver, but don’t know yet whether that combination’s working on an M1 chip (which I’ll eventually get: my Macs are aging and won’t last forever). This apparently is AccountEdge Pro for Windows in a Mac wrapper using CrossOver (CodeWeavers’ version of WINE). Since the last post in this thread, Priority Software (which had acquired Acclivity in 2018) announced an AccountEdge Pro for Mac subscription service that is compatible with Catalina and Big Sur (currently just on Intel chips although they claim they’re trying to get this to work on the M1 chip). Hi Adam, I was wondering what you and Tonya decided to do re: AccountEdge and a possible replacement? December’s nearly over, and with a new year about to start, I probably should be making a decision ASAP. The fact that MYOB is not supporting Mac OS from Catalina onwards will drive many to alternative (most likely web-based) solutions such as Xero, even though MYOB does offer a web based solution, out of spite or bitterness.Īnd I’m also unsure if a web-based solution can offer all of the features of a standalone application on a computer. If moving to an online service then each business name will be treated as a separate business and each charged the monthly rate. This is handy (or rather justifies the high purchase prices of buying myob) if you run a couple of micro (or hobby) businesses in the family. One other aspect is that a MYOB application on a computer can run multiple businesses within the app (up to five, from memory). ![]() One big question is how easy would a change from MYOB to XERO be and how it treats historical data as well as the structure of the accounts set up. There are different tiers of features at different price levels on both platforms.įor someone to move a myob business file/s from a single computer hard drive based version to a myob cloud based service will present challenges … little alone switching to another company such as Xero. My concern is that there will be a similar problem with the SSD on my Mac Mini, and that my only recourse will be to install Catalina, rendering all my AccountEdge files unusable on it (and I don’t want to run an older OS on Parallels or buy their Windows version or pay the prohibitive cost for their cloud “solution.”Īn option in Australia is which, I think, offers an online only service (web browser based). My Macbook Air is running Mojave but I had no choice in upgrading it: the SSD failed and had to be replaced and I was unsuccessful in reinstalling High Sierra on it: all that would work was to install the then current Mac OS of Mojave (which has been working fine for me). Due to the pandemic, I should have time to upgrade it to Mojave this summer. Re: upgrading to Catalina: I’m using AccountEdge on my Mac Mini, which is still running High Sierra. ![]() Anyone have any direct experience with it? I did see the very favorable 2014 review of MoneyWorks done by Macworld. MoneyWorks seems like it might be a suitable replacement for AccountEdge. MoneyWorks has an AccountEdge file converter that I’m looking into. ![]()
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