Contact Management Software
Murray Taylor
MTaylor at bytecraft.com.au
Wed Oct 19 01:33:05 PDT 2005
No problemo ...
Its not uncommon for ports to be behind as they are maintained by
someone who may not necessarily be on the actual developer
team, but is just a user who has found the app, liked it,
and (hopefully with the nod from the original developers)
rolled it into a port. Keeping it up to date is a task that
then must be done by this maintainer in their spare time.
The benefit is that usually the port has actually been tested
on FreeBSd and appropriate patches built into the port.
For some apps, no patches are necessary and you can go straight to
the master site for the most current version.
Others may be targetted at other platforms / libraries etc
and require the patch, so going to the master site wont work
without you personally figuring out the patch. (looking
at the make file for the ported version may help here)
cheers
mjt
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kane [mailto:mark at mkproductions.org]
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 4:06 PM
To: Murray Taylor
Cc: Vampire D; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Contact Management Software
Thanks for the suggestion of SugarCRM. I think this may work out great
for him with a couple of modules. :)
Only thing left is to figure out how to print labels/mail merge from it,
but their community may have a solution.
One thing I did notice as well, the SugarCRM website has the latest
version as 3.5.1, and the version ports is only 2.5.1b_1. I've got 3.5.1
running on a test server to demo to this co-worker and it's working
great so far.
Thanks again.
-Mark
Murray Taylor wrote:
> Is your ports tree up to date ??? From a 5.4 install disk it may be a
> snapshot of things at the time the
> 5.4 iso images were made...
>
> Ports are not dependant on the os rev level -- I'm running 4.11 and it
> is in my ports tree
> which I update about once a week
>
> cd /usr/ports
> make search key=sugar | grep Port
>
> If it doesnt return
> Port: sugarcrm-2.5.1b_1
>
> or so then your ports tree needs updating.
>
> mjt
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Vampire D [mailto:vampired at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:49 PM
> To: Murray Taylor
> Subject: Re: Contact Management Software
>
>
> I did a look on 5.4 and I do not see SugarCRM but when I went to
> FreeBSD.org/ports I did see it was under DeskUtils. Any reason I
would
> not have this particular? This is free install of 5.4, not from
> upgrade. All ports were installed at install.
>
>
> On 10/17/05, Murray Taylor <MTaylor at bytecraft.com.au> wrote:
>
> SugarCRM is in ports.... and its web site has a good demo
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Andrew
> P.
> Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 6:34 PM
> To: Mark Kane
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Contact Management Software
>
> On 10/14/05, Mark Kane <mark at mkproductions.org > wrote:
> > Hi everyone. I have a co-worker who wants to get away from
> Windows as
> > much as possible. I've told him about free and open source
> alternatives
> > for everything else he needs to do, but contact management is
> something
> > I'm having problems with.
> >
> > The good thing is he doesn't already have years of data in one
> format
> > like ACT. I'm looking for a something comparable on the
> FreeBSD side
> to
> > Maximizer, ACT, or Goldmine. Some key features he requires
> are:
> >
> > - Contact Manager
> > - Keep track of every aspect of every contact. Things like
> call logs,
> > letter logs, comments, to-do lists.
> > - Reports of contacts. To do items, completed items, etc
> > - Mail merge
> > - Label Printing
> > - Expense report. Hours spent on clients or projects.
> > - Possible remote access so a couple associates could login
> and add
> > things and look at things
> > - Possible integration with an email client like Mozilla
> Thunderbird
> to
> > file incoming mail by contact.
> >
> > He already owns the Maximizer 7 software for Windows but has
> not
> started
> > to use it yet, so that's why I'm trying to get suggestions or
> input on
> > what you all use for your contact management and sales
> software.
> >
> > Thanks very much in advance!
> >
> > -Mark
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> If I were him, I'd wait for a web-based solution from
> Google or some other vendor. I think we'll see a
> beta within a couple of months.
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