Re: contact manager

de Craig 06/23/2006 06:03

Lars wrote:

> FTR wrote:
>
>>I need a contact manager, calendar & project coordinator with
>>multi-lingual features for a small project that uses Window PCs in
>>different cities. People that will use both are NOT techno-geeks.
>>Is there any free contact manager that can link between PCs in different
>>places (no LAN) ?
>>
>>Frank
>
> Depending what you want to focus on, there are different possibilities.
>
> You could use a groupware like eGroupware, a crm solution like vtiger
> or some project management software like PHPProjekt for example. All of
> those are server based and can be accessed via the internet for example
> (or a lan of course).
>
> It sounds like egroupware is the best combination of contact
> managerment, a little bit of crm, and project or workflow management.
>
> Cheers
>

That's my thought too. Frank, you might want to pop over to
opensourcecms.com. Essentially, the site loads demos of every
cms-related app they can. On the index tree at left, click on 'groupware.'

I've heard NetOffice get a lot of praise and I've seen dotProject used
effectively. No direct experience in this space though.

hth,
-Craig
p.s. I'd really be interested to find out what you chose...