On 27 Jan 2008, at 18:32, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Chris Travers wrote: > >> Hmmmm...... I guess I would scale back that promise a little :-) >> >> Most of the time when people speak of CRM they mean: >> >> 1) Contact management plus categorization >> 2) Comment tracking >> 3) Task tracking (i.e. sales opportunities, etc) >> 4) Appointment Tracking >> >> 1.3 will do the first two quite well. It will not do everything that >> people want from a "complete" CRM without some additional >> extensions to >> the database. I am sure these will come in the form of add-ons later >> (any volunteers?) but they are not there now and there are no current >> pkans to add scheduling and task tracking to the financial core of >> the >> application. > > Well I can easily add the data structure for three and four.
The question is whether this is desirable. Does LedgerSMB wish to compete with fully-functional CRMs? Personally, all I would like is that LedgerSMB be able to get contact details from an LDAP database, or export its users using an LDAP interface. For task & appointment tracking I use iCal on my notebook / desktop machines, and am likely to look at Apple's iCal server - which is free & open-source - in the near future. Unless you're planning an "Exchange killer" then I find appointment tracking to be an undesirable feature in Ledger SMB. Stroller. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
