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["Andrew C. Oliver" <acoliver AT buni.org>]

Do you need self-hosted?  If not then you can use the hosted sugar or 
salesforce.com. 
There is also http://www.adempiere.com and http://www.compiere.org/

I was underwhelmed with compiere because it required oracle!  Oddly the 
CRM space is
rather spartan.

Tony Spencer wrote:
> Hate to divert the conversation here but could you let me know what  
> CRM you purchased?
> I assume the open source CRM was SugarCRM.  I just set it up for a  
> partner of mine and although the setup was really annoying with some  
> crazy dependencies I've not had any trouble with it yet but I would  
> rather pay for something proven that won't give me headache down the  
> road.
>
> On Mar 5, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
>
>   
> > On Mar 5, 2007, at 10:40 AM, zman wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> > >       
> > > > We tried an open source wiki, and now swear by Confluence, from
> > > > Atlassian:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/
> > > >         
> > > $1200 for 25 users... $8k for unlimited
> > >
> > > A little steep price wise...
> > >
> > >       
> > For an individual maybe, but not for a company, where the total cost
> > of ownership is more important than the license cost. We use
> > Atlassian's bug tracking software as well, and their software not
> > only makes our entire company more productive, but in the years we've
> > used it have never encountered a single bug.  We've filed some
> > requests for new features, but never a bug.
> >
> > For software that employees use everyday I'm much more interested in
> > efficiency and capability than price.  For example, my company
> > recently spent 6 months trying to switch to using an open source CRM
> > system.   After dedicating an engineer half time for six months
> > posting on the forums, fixing bugs, etc, we had to pull the plug and
> > go with a commercial system that took two days to implement. Cost of
> > the open source package: $25,000 in salary. Cost of the commercial
> > system: $2,000.
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________ 
> > __
> > _________
> > If you put up a large switch in a cave somewhere, with a sign on it
> > saying "End-
> > of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH", the paint wouldn't even
> > have time
> > to dry. -- Pratchett
> >          -- michael at czeiszperger dot org, Chapel Hill, NC
> >
> >
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