[CoLoCo] Software for a small business (customer database)

TJ Heaney tjheaney at gmail.com
Thu Oct 23 19:51:33 BST 2008


One bit of FOSS that I've been using is dot.Project.

It's primarily oriented toward a Development environment, but it could have
some useful applications.

www.*dotproject*.net/

All you need is the standard LAMP setup.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Jeffrey LePage
<jeffrey_lepage at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I have a line on a possible Linux convert.
>
> This guy owns a small auto repair shop (somewhere in the Arvada area) and
> wants to replace his existing computer system which is _very_ old.  He says
> it runs DOS, so I guess it's around 15-20 years old.
>
> His needs are very simple.  He wants a customer database with some sort of
> nice front-end for entering data.  And of course he wants to print out work
> orders and stuff.
>
> This will not be a POS system, however I suspect that he may want something
> like this in the future.   At the very least I suspect he may want to be
> able to print out a bill with everything itemized and tax included.  His
> wife does his accounting stuff at home on their windoze PC (with quickbooks,
> I think).  Exporting the data to a quickbooks friendly format would be nice.
>
> My question is this:  does anyone know of a quick out-of-the-box FOSS
> solution for this guy?
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