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Re: [PLUG] Netraverse LUG Sponsorship Program
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On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:03, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 07:48, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 21:23, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > >
> > > C'mon, isn't there some windows program that you would rather not do
> > > without on a regular basis, but have gotten to the point where you can
> > > do most of your work in Linux? Win4Lin and VMWare are a nice way to
> > > spend your day in Linux while using that one vertical market windows app
> > > that you really need to use.
> >
> > Which would be??? What is it that you need to use every day that you
> > can't find a suitable replacement that is native Linux? Let me know and
> > we'll see if we can find something for you.
>
> Time Matters legal case management software. It's like a super
> PIM/Document Management System/MailMerge/Billing System/MUA (I don't use
> this component) and probably more (http://www.timematters.com/). Under
> pressure from some active Linux supporting customers, and a joint
> venture with Toshiba to market a server appliance, there is now a Linux
> server, i.e. the back end can run on RedHat 7.2 with Postgres or mySQL,
> but the clients are still all windows based.
>
Have you attempted running this under wine? How many other lawyers would
be interested to pay for this functionality under wine? Perhaps you can
form a coalition and fund the development?
> As my practice has moved from civil litigation to criminal trials, I
> have found that I could do with less desktop power and more
> portability. I duplicated the stuff I need the most on my Palm Pilot.
> The Palm already handles the contacts, the calendaring, and the
> deadlines, and I have created a pretty respectable case management
> database for everything else I need (including billing) using a
> commercial PalmOS RDBMS formerly called thinkDB. Though thinkDB was
> just sold by its developer, ThinkingBytes to Dataviz (ThinkingBytes
> wanted to go totally MS.NET/PocketPC) and renamed "Smart Lists to Go",
> the Desktop component and synching conduits are still limited to
> Windows, meaning that, if I want to print, report on, or manipulate my
> data, I need windows. I have an ongoing quest to find a Palm based DBMS
> that will sync with a Linux based desktop, and so far, have failed.
>
Evolution is a pretty good calendaring and contact management -
especially if you centralize with an LDAP. I think 1.2 has palm syncing
capability - but I don't have a palm - so I haven't tried?
> The other Windows program that I find indispensable is QuickBooks.
> GNUCash may or may not be a replacement for Quicken, but even Quicken is
> not a replacement for QuickBooks.
>
I seem to recall crossover supporting Quickbooks now. But you can find
out for yourself at www.codeweavers.org.
> There is no Acrobat for Linux, just a reader and basic, featureless
> creator. No support for forms creation (or form data saving even),
> annotations, digital signatures, navigations, etc.
>
OpenOffice.org supports printing directly to pdf. Also, I find that
printing to Postscript (ps) then running ps2pdf acceptable. I've even
heard of people writing cron scripts that automatically convert any ps
files in a particular directory to PDF- so you would basically print the
file to a standard location and it would be converted in a matter of
minutes.
> Other than that, my QuattroPro spreadsheet templates (fine tuned for 10
> years) run fine in Corel's Linux version, and some day, I will be able
> to translate my automated Word templates into either StarBasic
> (documented only in German for now) or in the new (and exciting
> OpenOffice Framework.
>
Yeah - I don't think OpenOffice.org handles Quatro pro - but if you have
something that works already....
> I will be very grateful if you could fill any of these needs with an
> Open Source, Linux replacement (or improvement)
How grateful?
--
W. Chris Shank <chris.shank@acetechgroup.com>
ACE Technology Group
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