[ale] CRM

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 08:13, Matthew Brown wrote:
> I _think_ Act stores in .dbf format, which is a fairly standard
> xBASE/dBASE/FoxPro format.  I'm sure somebody's written something to
> read the data from one of those.
> 
> 
Not to my knowledge.Act! is one of those "hate it, use it, but gotta
have it" apps that has no analog in OpenSource. The closest I've seen is
Compiere. But it is MUCH bigger (and does more) and requires a network
connection to use as it requires a central database server. The clients
are java apps, the accounting package is sql-ledger, and it uses Oracle
(which requires a fairly stout machine to run on).

There was the beginnings of a personal contact manager from Chilisoft
several years ago. But it has fizzled.
> 
> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 08:03, Christopher Fowler wrote: 
> > After the recent worms I'm looking at ways of removing Windows from
> > its petty existance here.  I'm stuck with one program that is
> > causing me headaches in Windows.  ACT!.  CrossOver Office will
> > not support this app and I've tried.  I'm looking at  ACT! for the 
> > Web but I'm guessing it requires IIS.  The beatuy of ACT! is that
> > a sales person can run it on a laptop and sync data when they get back to 
> > the office.  The downside is that the data is stored in files and not
> > in a database.  Could those files bee berkley DB format?  I'm looking
> > for a Linux solution to the problem.  I don't care if it is free or
> > costs.  
> > 
> > Chris
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> 
> Matthew Brown
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