itsy bitsy CRM .. open and free

[Joshua Zeidner]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Trent Shipley <tshipley at deru.com> 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 <cryptworks at gmail.com> 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,  <tshipley at deru.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> SugarCRM is the first I ran across. My first impression was that it would be too big to use for this job.
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