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Hi Guys This is really a call to web site developers and programmers. I am currently looking at the future of computing and provision of online services. I do believe there will come a time where maybe we see servers pwoering all our apps. I wonder if there is where Linux will really come into its own. Instead of seeing the desktop as the Holy Grail maybe to see web apps as the future. So welcoming the future in means a whole new road map for me. And it involves ecommerce, customer resource managers (crm) and accounting packages (erp). To build systems from the ground-up will take many years and cost mega bucks so the only way forward is to use existing systems and develop them to meet your needs. The main problem with the current availability is integration. Basically I have looked at a variety of products - WP, Zen Cart, Drupal and I have noticed that they all provide very good shopping carts. What they don't provide is erp and crm facilities with integration. They might have erp and crm modules but they don't seem to integrate. But for erp and crm to be of any use surely they need to integrate. i.e. I am a new customer and I visit ABC Online Shop. I register and buy a new product. Now in order to manage the customer and do follow-up I need to create a new record in my crm. To process the invoice and add it to my accounts I now have to create a new record in my erp. I now have three records of the same customer and will need to access these records if the customer does any further transactions with me. Integration means that when I buy an item and register as a new customer, the record is automatically added to my erp and crm complete with buying record. Then when I login to my crm to note a follow-up call and a new purchase that automatically updates the erp. You see the easy bit is the online shop. The hard bit is getting the various programmes to talk to each other. Ok so what I am wondering is whether any developers out there know of open source software that integrates and provides what I need. But also whether any web developers out there want to get together and collaberate on such a project? Many thanks. -- Rich http://www.cregy.co.uk Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Romans 12 v 1 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html