Contact Management

[Noah Dain]

On 11/30/05, Charles Yao <yaocharlesc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11/30/05, Noah Dain <noahdain at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 11/29/05, Charles Yao <yaocharlesc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On 11/30/05, leon <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Charles Yao <yaocharlesc at gmail.com> writes:
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> > > > | Hi guys,
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> > > > | Do you know any contact management software for ubuntu?
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> > > > | Charles
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> > > > Thunderbird is quite good.
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> > >  Hi What Im actaully looking for is something that my entire office can
> use.
> > > A central repository of contacts with all the details so that we wont
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> > > to keep searching or asking each other for the phone numbers or emails
> of
> > > clients. Were currently using openwebmail as my employees want to access
> > > their email from wherever they are as they do not have laptops. Also, I
> need
> > > it to work on macs as there are amny pcs int he office using them.
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> > >  Thanks guys,
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> > >  Charles
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> > I'd look into a free groupware server that supports using an ldap
> > backend for contact management.  Maybe something like egroupware or
> > phpgroupware would work?  both are in debian and ubuntu-universe.
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> > --
> > Noah Dain
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>  Thanks Noah, would it be difficult to implement it? I have no experience
> with installing and configuring this kind of software.
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>  Charles
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A groupware system would be fairly complex to setup, and would replace
whatever you are using now.  The advantages are you get a whole slew
of features at your disposal, but more importantly your contact
database (and more) could be in ldap.  Many programs have some form of
support for ldap, and you should never need to migrate away from ldap
for your purpose.

I've not set one of these up yet, but I have been meaning to.  I think
I'll whip up a vmware install of ubu this weekend and give it a go.

I personally can't wait for some of these projects to start AJAXing
their groupware suites.  I wouldn't mind being able to easily replace
some of the exchange servers I'm forced to look after.  ;-)

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Noah Dain