2009/12/13 Logan Rathbone
David, are you running (Arch) Linux in your law office? If so, could you describe your experiences? What do you use for time and billing
I'm also running an entire law office on linux. We chose Debian Linux, because the person who is responsible for our server and network is an official debian-developer. I'm myself responsible for making a PHP-interface to all the different services we are running. It is my goal to have all of these working together in my PHP-driven intranet-site: - NFS for storing all our documents, templates etc. (*) - dovecot for our IMAP-mail (***) - asterisk for our telephones (*) - LDAP for our addressbooks (* - Read only) - davical for our calendars (* - Read only) - templating over PHP for our standardized documents (**) - billing and time management (***) * = done ** = not completely working *** = planned feature Any of the features that is not working in my PHP-driven frontend, can be done with standalone applications (file manager, openoffice, evolution) or webbased applications (contagged, roundcube webmail etc.). That's the whole purpose of my system: tailored to fit our needs and if it should fail, we're not tied to this app, because it is built around open standards. It is a lot of work, but since a month or two it is really getting usable and saving us time. We have an accountant that does all the billing for us, so I don't have any recommendations on that. Bambooinvoice looks good. Maybe I could give it a try... HTH