Re: Somewhat OT - ACT Goldmine replacements

de Craig 04/12/2006 05:52

John H. wrote:

> Keywords: Act Goldmine Tahoe free equivalant replacement.
>
>
> Not free (but included if you have it) - Microsoft Access under File,
> New, the "Databases" tab, you will find a contact manager. Follow the
> wizard through the setup, and bingo, you're done. Setup time - 15
> minutes.
>
> Free Nagware - IIRC EasyOffice has a contact manager with history and
> notes as part of the base install. Setup time - 0 minutes. No wizard,
> because it's already set up.
>
> Open Source - OpenOffice 2.0 Base - Ok so it doesn't have a full
> database Wizard, but the table Wizard has "Customers" and "Tasks" that
> will build these tables for you, and the Form Wizard will build you a
> customers form with subform for the task history. Query Wizard and
> Report Wizard should be just as easy. Setup time - 45 minutes. I
> still have more to do with the reports but at least I can enter data.
>
>
Sweet write-up, John. Thx!

-Craig