[GRLUG] grlug Digest, Vol 51, Issue 34

[Jeff Cook]

I would try vtiger http://vtiger.com/ I is a great sales tool not hard  
to set and it is 100% OS. Also may look at Horde http://www.horde.org/  
not bad to set up it modular so you install what you need only (I am  
writing this email in Horde).


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Jeff Cook
5xData
"An Open Source Company"
616-301-4101
www.5xdata.com
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If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise  
of fighting a foreign enemy - James Madison


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>    1. "Contact Manger" solutions? (L. V. Lammert)
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> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:15:20 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net>
> To: Grand Rapids LUG <grlug at grlug.org>
> Subject: [GRLUG] "Contact Manger" solutions?
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> A friend of mine wants to track contacts for a new business venture so
> that everyone can see who the organization is talking with, ... but that's
> all [at this time]. The vast majority of other CRM solutions, then are WAY
> overkill.
>
> The compounding factor is that he doesn't really know he wants or they
> will be needing [of course]!
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> Does anyone have any recommendation for a starting point or seen any sort
> of feature comparison of *OS* projects that I could show him?
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> 	Thanks!
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> 	Lee
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> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:22:41 -0400
> From: Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] "Contact Manger" solutions?
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> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:15 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>> A friend of mine wants to track contacts for a new business venture so
>> that everyone can see who the organization is talking with, ... but that's
>> all [at this time]. The vast majority of other CRM solutions, then are WAY
>> overkill.
>>
>> The compounding factor is that he doesn't really know he wants or they
>> will be needing [of course]!
>>
>> Does anyone have any recommendation for a starting point or seen any sort
>> of feature comparison of *OS* projects that I could show him?
>
> There is recurring discussion of a VMWare appliance for OpenGroupWare,
> but that's all I know of for turnkey-like solutions.
>
> As for other things to try:
> * Citadel (groupware solution)
> * Google Docs for Domains (with ActiveSync syncing and all that jazz)
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> An LDAP server would let you share contacts, too, but I don't know
> *anything* about how to set one of those up.
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> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:41:40 -0400
> From: Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>
> To: grlug at grlug.org
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] "Contact Manger" solutions?
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> On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 11:15 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
>> A friend of mine wants to track contacts for a new business venture so
>> that everyone can see who the organization is talking with, ... but that's
>> all [at this time]. The vast majority of other CRM solutions, then are WAY
>> overkill.
>> The compounding factor is that he doesn't really know he wants or they
>> will be needing [of course]!
>
> Without detailed requirements it is impossible to make any substantive
> suggestions.  And, the simple fact is, there is *no* simple solution for
> this problem domain because i-just-want-to-share-contacts is a totally
> 105% bogus description of a use-case.
>
> Share what information?
>
> Using what clients?
>
> Between how many users?
>
> All contacts are global, or just a subset?
>
>> Does anyone have any recommendation for a starting point or seen any sort
>> of feature comparison of *OS* projects that I could show him?
>
> No such thing exists, or is possible.
>
> If you want the dumb simplest solution just configure a mod_dav share,
> point GroupDAV clients to it, and away you go.  Should kind-of work with
> Novell Evolution, Mozilla Thunderbird, and possibly Kontact [haven't
> user or tried that one in ages].
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