In the last few years there have been a number of open source groups which have created free and inexpensive open source alternatives to many of the major business productivity tools available to companies. There’s Open Office to replace Microsoft Office, Yahoo’s Zimbra to replace Exchange, SugarCRM to replace Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce.com and other proprietary [...]
Entries from February 25th, 2008
How to Leverage Open Source Software for Your Business without an IT Department
February 25th, 2008 No Comments
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DataSync Now Offers Joomla 1.5 Hosting
February 18th, 2008 1 Comment
It’s been less than two weeks since Joomla’s developers announced that a stable version of Joomla 1.5 was available and the new version of this open source content management system has received glowing reviews from many web developers. We at DataSync are proud to announce that we are now offering hosting for Joomla 1.5.
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SugarCRM 5.0 Review: 4 Reasons to Switch
February 18th, 2008 No Comments
SugarCRM 5.0 was recently released to the public, and we’ve had a good chance make use of the new version during our day to day business operations. So far, we’ve been incredibly impressed with the new version and the flexibility that it has to offer. Here are five new features in SugarCRM 5.0 that might [...]
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SugarCRM/Zimbra Integration Project Launches March 1
February 17th, 2008 No Comments
After a long planning and resource allocation phase, our SugarCRM/Zimbra integration project is set to launch March 1, 2008. It’s been great working with the community to build out a strategy and requirements list for the project, now we’re ready to kick it into gear. If you are interested in contributing to our project please [...]
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Introducing DataSync Productivity Suite: Integrating, Zimbra, SugarCRM, Joomla, KnowledgeTree & More
February 15th, 2008 1 Comment
In the last few years we’ve seen a significant number of open source tools which are effective no-cost or low-cost replacements to traditional proprietary tools which can costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase and maintain. Open Office is now very competitive with Microsoft’s Office Suite, GIMP can do many of the things that [...]
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Joomla 1.5 Review: 5 Reasons to Upgrade
February 10th, 2008 1 Comment
The stable version of Joomla 1.5 recently was released to the public, and I’ve got a chance to implement it on a couple of different sites now. There are a few things moved around, but it’s still the same great content management system with a few great new features. Here are five features that might [...]
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Review of Zimbra’s New Desktop Client, Watchout Outlook!
February 7th, 2008 5 Comments
In the last few years, Zimbra has grown by leaps and bounds in competing with Outlook and Exchange in the corporate email world. Most technical analysts agree that Zimbra has a much better and more server management tools, is much more efficient than exchange, and is more reliable than exchange, however thus far Zimbra has [...]
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A Comparison of Zimbra & Outlook’s Web Clients
February 6th, 2008 2 Comments
With the proliferation of Google Apps, Meebo, email web clients and other web applications, it’s very clear that we are moving away from a traditional client-server model of desktop software and moving towards server-side web-applications which we can access using nothing more than our standard web browsers. When it comes to web based email clients [...]
Meetup Groups Not Just For Ron Paul Anymore
February 4th, 2008 No Comments
When we think of the idea of a Meetup Group, most of us think small groups of Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich supporters that organize sparsely attended events for their candidates, but there are a few other interesting groups that have come up as well. It turns out there’s a meetup group in Chicago for the open [...]
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