So, at my company we're using Microsoft's CRM 3.0 and I must say, I like it. The integration with Outlook is seamless and customization is easy too. We have, however, experienced some significant performance issued with it, specifically when installed as a Laptop Client. We don't have any Desktop Clients installed yet but I'm guessing this isn't issue with the Desktop Client. If you don't know, the Laptop Client uses MSDE 2000 to store the data offline and synchronizes with the SQL server that ... [More]

A breif explanation of my current configuration: My laptop is a Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad Z61p with Intel DualCore 2Ghz, 1GB RAM, 100GB SATA HDD, Windows XP Pro SP2, Office Professional with SP2 CRM 3.0 Small Business runnning on SBS Premium 2003   First off, if Microsoft's CRM wasn't so stink sweet and intuitive and easy to use, I wouldn't bother. I've used SalesLogix by Sage Software, and though that is a great CRM app, I think Microsoft's is by far better. It integrates with Outlook 2003 i... [More]

But then again, I usually do make unreasonable demands. I've used UniObjects (UO) before it became UniObjects.Net (UO.Net) with Classic ASP. I found it simple to use and understand with files and sub routines in ASP. With the introduction of .Net things got a little more complicated to say the least. I was honetly expecting UO.Net to return my data in a dataset or something the .Net list controls would like, but noooooo. Lists of data is returned from UO.Net as either a DynamicArray (UniD... [More]

So, in my endeavors of finishing my three week late project for a customer, I ran into a snag, rather a wall. When trying to write to universe (uv) using uniobjects.net (uo) the browser returns the following error: Server Application Unavailable The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable.  Please hit the "Refresh" button in your web browser to retry your request. Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this specific r... [More]