Ask Slashdot: Unix Business Accounting Programs?

Ego writes "I've been searching high and low for the past year for a good business accounting package for Linux. Currently, my father runs an in-house beer and winemaking supply store, and since about five years ago, we've been using Peachtree Accounting for Windows. I'm looking to upgrade all the computers in the house network from windows to Linux, and this is the one obvious thing that we cannot live without..." True. I wonder how many other shops could use something like this? Click below for more...

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Ego contines with: "I need something that has basically all the functionality of Peachtree, which include at bare minimum: Invoicing, Customer database, Inventory management, billing, reporting (financial, inventory, etc), and the ability to review total profits in detail for each month. These are the bare necessities. I've found Xaccountant, and GNUCash, as well as tons of other personal finance programs, but none for business accounting. Another requirement is that it needs to be very simple to use, and have an X interface. My dad is not the most computer literate person in the world, so a text-based system is probably a bad idea(tm), as a graphical interface is much simpler for a 50+ year old man who knows almost nothing about computers to learn. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, as I want to get this rolling and get all the customer data and inventory data loaded and ready to roll out on the first of 1999 (stupid to switch in the middle of the inventory year, it'd be much easier to just take the logs of when we do our yearly inventory and input it on January 1st)."