Re: [Peterboro] Business Productivity Tools

2010-09-08 Thread Michele Mor
Hi Stuart. As far as CRM solutions, few years ago I had a look at epesi BIM. http://www.epesibim.com/ It seemed quite good, so you can have a look at it. Otherwise http://www.opencrx.org/, it should be free (as in speak). Other than these products, it depends on what your business is! Maybe you s

Re: [Peterboro] Business Productivity Tools

2010-09-08 Thread Mark Rogers
On 08/09/10 07:51, Stuart Bird wrote: Would I be better off going with something free (as in beer) such as Ubuntu even though my time overhead may be greater in the short term? Just on this specific point, consider the support options from Canonical; when I've had cause to speak with them abo

Re: [Peterboro] Business Productivity Tools

2010-09-08 Thread Tony Cowderoy
Stu I'm currently using LedgerSMB to run accounts for a small limited company, having previously used Sage Line 50. I've just completed the first full year and closed off the year-end successfully. It has its weaknesses but it does the job. However, you do need to understand accounting fairly w

[Peterboro] Business Productivity Tools

2010-09-07 Thread Stuart Bird
Hi All Due to an impending redundancy issue I have decided to try and turn into an opportunity to do something for myself. I have got to the point in my planning where I need to decide upon the IT infrastructure that I going to deploy. I would like to run all of the admin/business functions usi