Mods: I'm putting this in the Suse forum because that is the distro I use. Please move it to a better forum if you think it will get the exposure I want there.
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My company currently has its client/prospect database in a LibreOffice/OpenOffice-generated ODB file. It has a few dozen entries and a handful of fields that have worked well until now. It's time to move on to something more task-specific.

My sales staff have stubbornly crated their own stupid excel spreadsheets and access databases of their leads on their windows desktops instead of adding tables to the database like I taught them. They just don't want to have to create a table, it seems. They can sell ice cubes to eskimos but they don't want to put much effort into learning a new program.

What I seem to need is a multi-platform FOSS CRM package with GUI frontends for Suse, Windows, and Android. Iphone would be nice in case I hire someone who is a mac flunky someday, but so far we are all on Android phones. Based on their clinging to windows/office conventions, the more the Windows frontend looks like ACT! or office, the better :-(

Googling has yielded a lot of results, but it is hard to sift through the static and get real-world opinions on usability and compatibility across the platforms. Nor is any result useful in regards to info about importing my current database, be it via conversion to CSV or some other delimiter or whatever.

TIA,

J

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