My grumble factor about one of my hosting providers is getting higher. I have had a series of exchanges with them about the possibility of upgrading their mySQL servers to one that is more current (and one that supports activeCollab and SugarCRM). The saga continues…
First, they sent me a link to what versions they currently [...]

One of the more promising OpenSource apps that I have been following is that of activeCollab (aC for short) has posted the first Release Candidate for their next version. I mentioned this program earlier as a direct competitor to BaseCamp. The new features look great (from reading them). Unfortunately, my hosting provider (1and1.com) has a [...]

Some interesting opensource items that I have been playing with:

JitterBit Integration Server - pretty nice stand alone integration server with various types of hooks
activeCollab - a flat out opensource “attack” at BaseCamp
SugarCRM - an extremely solid implementation of a CRM solution (although I’m slammed with a upgrade error due to my hosting provider having an [...]

I’ve been playing around with MediaWiki…it is quite a bit of work! However, for someone new to it, it is a but overwhelming. Trying to find documentation on how to modify skins and such proved a bit daunting…
Trying to get my teeth into it.
WP (WordPress) seems to be a pretty nice piece of work. I [...]