My company locked down laptops that I can no longer run Portable XAMPP to use web based open source customer relationship management (CRM) for personal customer and activity management.
Are there any suggestions for an open source, portable application to meet these needs? does not have to be anything fancy. I only need to track open sales opportunities, customer activity and customer contacts.
Thanks in advance.
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I've just been looking at CRM solutions, and found one good open source non-web-based one, not sure about its status though. EBI Neutrino R1. Its download is a 30MB RAR, and it has screenshots of Windows and Linux. The docs seem to indicate that that has an installer inside it. It does, however, need a database it can use. You could use MySQL and take it with you, or have a central location for a database for it to connect to. Read its documentation for more details.
I'll look at doing a portable version if you like.
Tell me what you think of it.
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Thanks Chris. I'll have to take some time to go over the EBI Neutrino R1 CRM documentation in detail to evaluate the functionality. But on the surface I see 2 main issues generic to being "portable".
The first is that the application is Java based. Therefore the host system would be required to have the Virtual Machine installed.
The second would be the database. The optimal solution for a portable app would be to avoid running a database server such as the supported MySQL and Oracle XE. If I recall, SQLite can be run in a distributable package, and my impression was that it is not a server environment in this case.
Personally, I stopped testing after finding that the Apache component in XAMPP (or any other portable distribution) could no longer be run on company equipment. I'll have to check if a MySQL server is blocked as well.
SQLite is a different sort of solution. It's not a "server" thing, really.
EBI Neutrino R1 seems to only support MySQL and Oracle XE at the moment. Not sure if this is right though. MySQL might possibly be able to get through by using a different port if it gets blocked by default.
I hadn't looked at it properly, I'd just glanced over as I was looking for a web solution. I didn't notice that it was Java based. Ah well. Maybe when we have Java Portable (still waiting on Sun to respond to John T. Haller).
I am a Christian and a developer and moderator here.
“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” – Proverbs 15:1