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What Business Software Runs Your Office?
bardkerbie asks: "I work as a webmaster and sysadmin for a small computer services shop (4 employees including the owner). We're to a point in the growth of our business where we need a system for tracking work orders as they come in and out of the shop, specifically inventory used and time spent. We use Quickbooks Pro 2006 for our accounting and payroll software. I've played around with a number of issue-tracking and CRM suites, including Bugzilla, Eventum, SugarCRM and vTiger, but all seem like they lack one critical piece to handle the workload we have. What do you use for tracking the work you do? Is it something you wrote yourself? Is there an open-source project that works well, or is there a Quickbooks plug-in we can purchase?"
Our office used to use goatse, but we ended up losing data. Personally, I lost my lunch.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Seriously. It comes with everything. Open Office, Tomboy Notes, The Gimp, Pidgin, Skype, Firefox. ....Sadly it doesn't come with Thunderbird by default, so that costs me approx. 5 minutes of grief per machine every time I set up a new one. I have to remove Evolution, sudo apt-get thunderbird ... You know the drill.
I also change the background for every machine, and lose the brown default theme as well. An additional 30 seconds per machine.
Other than that, a default Ubuntu install is almost perfect for an office machine in any department.
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