[THIN] Re: OT: Anyone using ACT! in Citrix or otherwise?
- From: Christopher Wilson <christofire@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:16:27 -0500
The Goldmine install we have is a sweet Nostalgia inducing setup: Goldmine
v3 for Win95 with a Novell 3.11 backend hosting a Btrieve database. I don't
know who sold them on ACT!, but they do have some migration tools. I expect
Goldmine would have a migration path as well.
Looking at the Goldmine website
(www.frontrange.com<http://www.frontrange.com>)
it appears to integrate with better than ACT!
Have had to deal with BestSoftware (now Sage) when supporting their FAS
product, and it was no picnic.
Anyone else have any Goldmine endorsements?
Anyone tried MS CRM?
Thanks,
CW
On 10/19/05, Nick Smith <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If you've already got Goldmine running, then MHO is you'd be mad to move
> to Act. Severely backwards step in terms of functionality, performances,
> stability and security. ACT does, however, win in terms of ease of use.
> We've ot used 2005 at any size, but the previous version slowed to an
> absolute crawl at one client with something like 4,000 records – which
> Goldmine handles easily.
>
> Great for single user, OK for small (<5) workgroups, otherwise run a
> mile.
>
> Nick
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Evan Mann [mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* 19 October 2005 15:53
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: OT: Anyone using ACT! in Citrix or otherwise?
>
> I don't run it on Citrix, but I know this... ACT! 2005 moved to using
> MSDE for it's DB. It uses a .PAD on the local machines file that then
> references the database. You can use a central server with MSDE (or SQL I
> believe) for the database and modify the PAD files appropriately.
>
> What this means is that it installs MSDE on every computer it is
> installed. Even if you have a central server for the database there is no
> way to tell it to NOT install MSDE. What I have not tried is disabling the
> MSDE services on client machines with no actual DB and seeing if ACT still
> works There is no uninstall for MSDE in add/remove programs since it's
> installed as part of ACT.
>
> ACT is gotten considerably worse from an IT standpoint over the years. I
> see that ACT 2006 is out, maybe it's better, but I'm extremely doubtful. I
> say avoid at all costs.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Christopher Wilson
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:50 AM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] OT: Anyone using ACT! in Citrix or otherwise?
>
> Howdy, List.
>
> I am looking for some real world feedback on ACT! 2005. We are looking to
> replace an installation of Goldmine at a single location, ACT! is the
> proposed solution (actually we already own it). I have heard negative
> feedback about this app running client/server on PC's. If this is to be
> deployed to multiple sites it is likely to be done with Citrix or with their
> web client. Do you have any feedback about this product good or bad?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christopher
>
Other related posts:
