More Reliable: QuickBooks Online or QuickBooks Desktop? New blog entry http://bit.ly/

[Shannon Tucker]

Last Friday, QuickBooks Online was offline for about a half day. There was quite a bit of Twitter traffic about it — people were frustrated who needed to access their books and couldn’t.

That is the downside of cloud computing (Read more...)

[jonabyte]

That's a good post, I did not know about QB online being down, since I do not use it.
I feel that accounting software such as QB, quicken and my tax software need to be installed locally. I would go as far as office software - word processing, etc be installed locally. It is too important to my business to leave it to a third party.

I do think the "cloud" has its place and keep backups stored there, but files still are stored locally on my server.

[Shannon Tucker]

Jon, I think that for some folks there is a feeling of loss of control of a critical part of their business. Maybe that's how it seems to you?

But for others, it's letting someone else manage the info and IT better than they might be able to themselves. Thanks for your observation.