You just need a Web browser. Tax season is over for most Americans, and I'm not sure when taxes are due elsewhere, but managing your money using Linux is a year round process. While I use the Applix spreadsheet program to keep my budget, there are many other financial tools available . These include tools ranging from managing stock portfolios to balancing checkbooks to doing payrolls. Don't expect all of these to provide beautiful windowed interfaces just yet.
Most tools are still primitive in form, but they are getting better.
KDE's KParts is not MICO . That was an understatement. KParts is a non network transparent, shared library approach that was considered easier to develop with and provided better performance. KParts has an extension called XParts , which is how KDE embeds non KDE parts such as Gecko. I just needed something that would point me to KParts when looking for KDE's counterpart to Bonobo.