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

[siblog]

Just did a little bit of Googling and found some stuff:

Open Source ERP, POS quickbooks alternatives
-GNUCash - http://www.gnucash.org/
-OpenBravo - http://www.openbravo.com/product/pos/
-SQL-Ledger - http://www.sql-ledger.org
-Quasar - http://www.linuxcanada.com/

-Simon


On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:51 PM, TJ Heaney <tjheaney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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