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Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 17, 2013 15:26 UTC (Sun) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Remote desktop vs. remote display by Cyberax
Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland

Quickbooks works fine for this for small companies AND it also allows to track taxes/checks/invoices.

Did you read my slides? How easy is it to integrate Quickbooks with our CRM system and phone system so that when a customer calls, a web page pops up with all their open tickets, their CRM information and all outstanding invoices?

Oh. It's impossible. Because Quickbooks is proprietary and you're out of luck.

MSVS Express is free and even professional versions are cheap

Again, let me remind you that cheap != free.

Windows has one [AV] built-in.

To quote your comment about Ledger-SMB: LoL

People simply use one of the cloud offerings now. Running own mailserver is totally a non-starter for 99.99% of small companies.

It's not for us; spam-filtering is our business so putting our email in the cloud would be ridiculous. Furthermore, in case you have forgotten, cheap != free and there are no business-level free cloud email services.

Atlassian has a $10 for 10 users starter package

So you are saying that $10 is less than $0? Where did you learn arithmetic? And does Atlassian permit us to integrate with our phone and CRM system in the way I described in my slides?


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Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 17, 2013 18:28 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

>Did you read my slides? How easy is it to integrate Quickbooks with our CRM system and phone system so that when a customer calls, a web page pops up with all their open tickets, their CRM information and all outstanding invoices?
Actually, it's quite easy because QB has fairly complete API that allows to access customer data. But don't let that to distract you.

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 17, 2013 22:26 UTC (Sun) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

OK, I didn't know that about QB. Something to remember if I ever lose my mind and buy a Windows machine. ;)

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