[nzlug] (slightly)OT - huge OSS opportunity

[Craig Box]

> The bottom line - all the web-based groupware apps suck!
> SugarCRM sucks slightly less, so I've gone with that. But it still has
> major problems.

SugarCRM is not "groupware".  I define groupware personally as being
calendaring/contacts/e-mail etc, because Microsoft Exchange has beaten
that into me.  However, some of the other things you want come under the
terms of 'project management' as much as groupware.


>  * the set of features I'm looking for is diffused among many
>    different groupware apps, and not available in a single app, features
>    such as:
>     - composite to-do tasks (tasks with dependencies)
>     - ease of sharing tasks, appointments, contacts etc between users
>     - good level of AJAX usage

Excluding the PHP complaints, you might want to try looking at something
like ActiveCollab: http://www.activecollab.com/

The problem is that you then have Zimbra-for-e-mail, SugarCRM for CRM,
ActiveCollab for project management.. etc, and they're not really
integrated.  It's not really as simple to join these things on the web
in the way you can on a desktop.

Craig