If it's not too intrusive, just looking to see what software houses (to
use the term loosely) use to run their own business. In no particular
order, criteria includes sales, quotes, leads, projects, version
control, maintenance, billing, client follow-up, forecasting, budgeting,
issue/bug tracking, employee workload/performance tracking, etc.

Do you roll your own? Buy off the shelf? Run multiple apps? If so, do
they talk to each other or not? Do you have people manually performing
tasks that your system(s) can't handle? How satisfied are you with the
system(s) that run your business? What do you love/hate about your
system(s)? What percentage of your budget goes towards keeping your
system(s) current? Etc.

Apologies if this offends anyone - it's not meant to. Just looking to
see how automated some houses are and how happy they are with their
system(s).

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Joe

Joe wrote:
I'm eagerly awaiting TG's "I don't get paid to do your market
research" reply... should be good!

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frosty

"frosty" wrote:
I needed a good laugh, thanks John.

I wasn't even going to respond to this one. I'd guess most people eat
their own dog food, so to speak, or they use something like Quickbooks
if their own software is too vertical for the computer business.
Smaller shops probably just use paper and pencil - it's less cost and
aggravation than these danged computhingies...

T

You nailed it Tony, as usual.

I actually have two businesses. For the software business I use Quickbooks.
For the e-commerce business I use our Foresite software. The big difference
of course is the inventory management.


"Tony Gravagno" <g6q3x9lu53001 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com.invalid> wrote

"Jeffrey Kaufman" <jkaufman (AT) keydata (DOT) us> wrote in
news:%ZFgh.31383$wP1.17414 (AT) newssvr14 (DOT) news.prodigy.net:

The smugness that sometimes oozes from this group like pus from a
festering pimple never ceases to amaze me. It's a perfect parallel to
Pick itself - clique members discuss their theory and issues amongst
themselves in their "superiority" to the rest of the outside world.
I've seen this attitude many times in responses to "outsiders'" posts.

You guys should just take cdp to e-mail, as it's basically an after-
dinner clique of cohorts talking amongst themselves. The concept of a
real newsgroup has long since been gone from this forum.

And now back to lurking/laughing mode...

Regards,
Joe

Tony Gravagno wrote:
Glad you still have your sense of humor, Tony.
Too bad the thin-skinned OP lost his.

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frosty

"frosty" <frostyj (AT) bogus (DOT) tld> wrote in news:Cxdhh.65976$Fg.44972
@tornado.socal.rr.com:

My sense of humor's just fine, which is why I'm LOL right now.

Thanks for proving my point!

Regards,
Joe

Joe wrote:
Barely a * troll... whereas your k00kout was easily ***!

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frosty

The frosty man wrote:
Joe wrote:
Many of the people in this forum are my friends or clients, frequently
both. John and Jeff are no exception. Yes, exchanges here are often
quite congenial, with a good mix of back patting, ribbing, and the
occasional full out brawl that friends and colleagues are bound to
have. And yes many of us do get together for food and drink when we
get a chance - there are people in this forum who I see much more
often than some in my own family. Call it smugness, I call it a close
community.

Based on the lack of gratitude you've shown for the responses you've
received to your inquiry, I'd guess you won't be getting much more
input for your survey.

Antoine Le Smug

"Tony Gravagno" <g6q3x9lu53001 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com.invalid> wrote

"response."

Chandru

you've