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OpenExchange would do the job i think?

I think Zimbra Collaboration Suite will do most of the job for you.

Currently I am using Zimbra for mail, calender, contacts, and 3rd party client connections (outlook, evolution etc.) Zimbra is an Ajax app, so it can get a bit sluggish to load, but works nicely.

One of my coworkers told me that Zimbra has document managagement in the cvs right now. A document manager that I use that’s open source & fantastic is Knowledge Tree http://www.ktdms.com . If you have issues, the guys in their IRC channell #knowledgetree on freenode are extremely helpful.

I know you’re a Suse guy, but I will tell you I’ve had some issues running Zimbra and Knowledge tree on it. If you run CentOS (the free redhat clone - that is 100% binary compatible) you can actually setup the high-availability options.

Good luck.

I read your blog alot - I hope I can be of help for you

~Bob

So far, I can see your needs as:
1- Group Calendaring
2- Document Sharing
3- Sales/Customer Management
4- Project Management
5- Centralised Access to Customer Data
6- E-Mail Management
7- Database Integration

For numbers 1, 2, 6, partially 5:
a). Zimbra Collaboration Suite 3 OSE
b). Scalix Community Edition (25 users) on CentOS4.3 or SuSE 9.3
c). Open Xchange - difficult to set up, there is a tutorial on that in Linux Format #81 (I could scan those pages should I have the time).

7 goes with the cake.

5 would need a CRM. I don’t know of any that good to use it as is. Not a single one.

4… depends of what you want. You do NOT need a standalone clone of MS Project - there are many (Imendio Planner, GanttProject 2.0, TaskJuggler, KPlato). But you want it integrated, and web-based.

If you need Gantt charts too, try Outreach Project Tool. (But it depends on what kind of projects are you having.)
If you don’t need Gantt, WebCollab is very simple and light. (Maybe too simple, but easy to hack.)
Oh, and there is dotProject. A lot of work to do, zillions of clicks, but it may fit your needs. (Or not.)

3: no idea. I don’t know of any good CRM! (3 should go a little hand in hand with 5, I suppose.)
Of course you can try SugarCRM, but I never tested it, so I don’t know how it performs.

Of look at what’s listed at http://www.opensourcecms.com.

Somebody said about KnowledgeTree DMS: it’s nice, but when I tried to do something useful, I found it not that great.

Except for SugarCRM and KPlato, all the cited names and keywords can be searched on my blog for (very) quick opinions.

Hello there,

I’m a core member of dotProject and I’d like to point out that the above comments are pretty accurate. Towards that goal, we’re always looking for feedback from the community to improve things and generally resolve issues. If you end up evaluating dotProject, feel free to drop me a note and let me know your thoughts… especially if you end up choosing something else.

Have a good one,
keith

I want to install Knowledge Tree3 and it has 2 options, one where i do not need to manually install apache+mysql+php, which is better for me, and other is from source, where apache+other ha to be functioning. Since as stated above i have already installed suse 10.1, which is better option if i also want to go for open-xchange, which comes with suse 10.1 (to give a try) and later SugarCRM.

I am very much n00b with server settings, where and which files have to be edited for proper setup of apache, and mysql+php+other required modules to function properly.

Any recos ….