On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 01:22 +0000, Bradley Kieser wrote: > I hope that someone has cracked this one because I have run into a brick > wall the entire week and after 3 all-nighters with bad installations, I > would appreciate hearing from others! > > I am looking for a decent OpenSource CRM system that will run with > Postgres. SugarCRM seems to be the most popular but it's MySQL-centric > and its opensource parts are very restricted. > > vTiger is also mySQL-centric. > > I thought that I had a corker of a system with "centricCRM" but when it > came to actually installing it, I am 48 hours down and hacking through > screen after screen of installation errors. Basically, it relies way too > much on ant and Java tools. Nothing against Java but my experience with > ant used for installing PG schemas is a dismal track record of error and > frustration. centric CRM is no exception. Frankly, it just doesn't work > and after trying to hack out the ant into a PG script I have decided to > give it up as a bad job. > > XRMS promises to run on PG but... it doesn't. The core system is fine, > but useless without the plugins. The Plugins are mySQL-specific again, I > spent several all-nighters previously hacking through installation > screens attempting to convert mysql to PG, making software patches... > you get the picture. > > XLSuite looks very promising. Awesome interface, looks great... only > it's just not ready yet. It is a year away from being at full PG > production level. > > Compiere doesn't support PG. > > OpenTAPS the demo won't even work. And it's US-centric whereas we are in > the UK. A pity that it's so very much tied to the US as it could be very > good. > > I have tried numerous other CRMs but all the same - either don't run on > PG, claim to but in reality don't or are simply pre-Alpha and not ready > for production use. > > So if anyone has actually cracked this, please let me know! I really > need a good CRM. > > It has to be OpenSource, not just out of principle, but we need to > integrate it into an existing business with established inhouse software > so we need to be able to customise the code. > Stumbled across this one: http://www.hipergate.org/ which appears to be crm and groupware that works with postgresql (requires version 8.x so it appears to be relatively up to date development-wise). It is java based apparently so it may not be so palatable for you.
