On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > I'm thinking that for this "CRM" running on a laptop and saving data in > Access or SQL Server Lite (or > > HSQL database engine or "touchless" MySQL) would be appropriate, so J2EE > is a bad sign right there. Hey Trent, last time I looked it wasnt using the heavy duty J2EE components like EJB. At the time it was Struts based (maybe it was using Hibernate I dont recall exactly). As long as they kept EJB out of the equation, you should be able to run it on a lightweight system. > > > Is it reasonable for a user with decent user level skills and a laptop > to use Centric CRM? If you have basic Java skills I would say, yes. Vtiger has a larger user base though. -jmz > > > > Joshua Zeidner wrote: > >>   I've used Centric CRM.  Its an option if you have J2EE skills.  Its >> architecture is more flexible than SugarCRM.  The SugarCRM project is >> really dominated by the SugarCRM corporation so you're not really >> going to get the FOSS experience there. >> >>   There's also VTiger which was an early fork of SugarCRM. >> >>    http://www.ohloh.net/p/vtiger >> >>  -jmz >> >> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Stephen wrote: >> >>> Well i found a link on making Worpress a kind of lightweight CRM: >>> http://chasesagum.com/using-wordpress-as-a-lighweight-crm >>> >>> There there is this Project useing sql lite and PHP: >>> http://code.google.com/p/crm-light/ >>> >>> And there ther is this thing i found as well: >>> http://www.simplecustomer.com/ >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:38 AM,   wrote: >>> >>>> SugarCRM is the first I ran across. My first impression was that it would be too big to use for this job. >>>> Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Eric Cope >>>> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:57:55 >>>> To: Main PLUG discussion list >>>> Subject: Re: itsy bitsy CRM .. open and free >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >>> >>> Stephen >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss