Intuit’s QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions Embraces Linux
Answering the call for an open source option from Information Technology professionals, Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) announced today that businesses will soon be able to operate QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions® from Linux servers. It is the first time the company has made one of its products available to users of open source systems.The offering will enable the tens of thousands of growing companies that are passionate about using open source environments to take advantage of Intuit’s award-winning mid-market system while maintaining the increased security, manageability and lower total cost of ownership of Linux. The decision to extend the offering beyond Windows, made at the QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions User Conference, is part of Intuit’s effort to continue to meet the needs of more complex businesses.
A Linux server version of what Thomson describes as the “top end of the QuickBooks line” may not be a big move toward Linux, but at least it’s a step in the right direction. Maybe this product will do well enough that, someday, Intuit will consider producing Linux versions of desktop QuickBooks, Quicken, and TurboTax.
