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Bruce Perens: the Linux colonel talks (vnunet)Bruce Perens: the Linux colonel talks (vnunet)Posted Sep 8, 2004 16:17 UTC (Wed) by tjc (subscriber, #137)Parent article: Bruce Perens: the Linux colonel talks (vnunet) This is in the typical kind of office where 80 per cent of the people use an office suite, web browser, email and not very much else. It's the "not very much else" part that is tricky. I have a friend who wants to move his business off Windows and onto Linux, but he uses Intuit Quickbooks, and right now there aren't any viable alternatives. Larger offices (with an IT staff) will probably make the move first, since they have the resources to provide alternatives to some of the apps from ISVs that people typically use. On the other hand, promoting Open Office will help dry up MSFT's revenue stream. :-)
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A little bit else Posted Sep 8, 2004 17:17 UTC (Wed) by stephen_pollei (guest, #23348) [Link] For one group I'm seriously thinking of helping to migrate that little something else is http://www.frontrange.com/goldmine/ . Which is some CRM stuff that they use to keep track of contacts. They use that a lot and seem pretty stuck to it.
A little bit else Posted Sep 8, 2004 21:17 UTC (Wed) by nlee (guest, #730) [Link] There are three good CRMs I've found that run on Linux. Two of them are OSS and the other is free for 5 users. SugarCRM and XRMS are LAMP based. DarkHorse CRM is Java based.
I have a breif discussion about them here: http://stateless.geek.nz/archives/2004/08/15/more-crm-sof...
Bruce Perens: the Linux colonel talks (vnunet) Posted Sep 8, 2004 21:11 UTC (Wed) by nlee (guest, #730) [Link] Depend on the level that they used Quickbooks, http://www.sql-ledger.org is becoming quite a solid product.
Since its written in Perl and SQL, you can get any half decent Perl coder to add extensions. Plus its pretty easy to access information with Crystal Reports or similar (Datavision).
Bruce Perens: the Linux colonel talks (vnunet) Posted Sep 8, 2004 22:32 UTC (Wed) by British (guest, #19768) [Link] Quickbooks will run under wine.
Bruce Perens: the Linux colonel talks (vnunet) Posted Sep 9, 2004 20:09 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link] Quickbooks will run under wine.I thought about that, but Intuit won't support it running under Wine, which means I'd end providing the support.
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