itsy bitsy CRM .. open and free

[Trent Shipley]

Joshua Zeidner wrote:

> 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
>   

Large user base is always a big plus.  I'll have a look at both of them.
>   
>>
>> 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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