On 20/01/11 13:57, John Stevenson wrote:
I agree with the comment from Dan, ditch your spreadsheet asap and get something specific, before the spreadsheet becomes a noose around your neck.
Unless it's a very simple requirement then why not just use OOo Base and MySQL? You can run that on Windows or Ubuntu or MACs.
You could look for a helpdesk / ticket/issue management tool that lets you record your inventory, that way you can also record issues occurring on specific hardware. A nice (commercial) example of this is called Service-now.com <http://Service-now.com>. I am sure there are issue management tools for Linux that do the same thing, I can think of http://otrs.org <http://otrs.org/>, although I have not used this in a while so dont remember all the features but it looked good at the time.
There are many professional and full featured systems. OTRS is a good one, as are Redmine, RT, OSTicket & some others.
Also you could think along the lines of a highly modular ERP system such as OpenERP that has Asset and Project Management capabilities.
Lots of ways... Al -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
