Recently I sat with my CIO for a little chat re: possibilities of moving our 1000+ desktops from Windows to Linux. Being in a law firm, we made a checklist of apps that our users would not be able to function without. The regular document-churning and groupware apps were easy to replace (OpenOffice, Evolution and such), but when we got to time and billing (currently using Carpe Diem) and document management (DOCSOpen) we couldn't find anything comparable on Linux side. The concensus was that we are not quite there yet - 2-3 years down the road, maybe, but not right now, at least not for the company of our size.
We use home-grown apps for time/billing at my comparably-sized firm, but for doc management we use iManage [imanage.com] by Interwoven. I think Linux is supported on the back end, and it has a web-service-type product that I think can be used instead of their Windows client.
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build a nuclear balm?
Document Management, Time and Billing apps? (Score:4, Interesting)
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I tried Gnotime for time & billing, and I found it quite buggy (let alone the abomination of being back-ended by an XML file instead of a RDBMS).
Did you evaluate this one, it seems quite professional but I haven't tested it yet: WR Time Tracker [wrconsulting.com].
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