I know it's not his primary query, but I would suggest looking into SugarCRM ( http://www.sugarcrm.com/ ) as a replacement for ACT...
-- Best regards, Sherman Boyd On 4/25/06, Charles-H. Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > forwarding Mr Dobbs' mail as expected. > > David, at first glance, I think you should know that OOo doesn't come > with compatibility filters for Lotus formats. Jpegs and Bitmaps are easy > to use though. I don't know how well this answers your questions though. > Feel free to let us know more about your situation. > > Best, > > Charles-H. Schulz. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Dobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:52:19 +1000 > Subject: [newsletter] Lotus > We have for years been using Lotus Smartsuite. Predominately Wordpro and > 123. > We are now facing the inevitable. This product seems not to be supported > by IBM any more and we are under pressure from database software > providers (we use ACT but would consider a change) and our customers, > all who have adopted MS office products as their standard and we are > supposed to communicate using MS products (Word and Excel). > Okay, we can for new documents accommodate that using Open Office / Star > Office. The real big problem we have is converting our existing Lotus > documents to be compatible with the wretched MS products. typically > brochures produced which also have illustrations Bitmap / JPEG. > Otherwise it means spending heaps of time reproducing years of documents > generated using Lotus. > Any suggestions/hints pls.? > You guys are like a breath of fresh air! > Regards > David Dobbs > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
