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Outlook 2000 Consultant Wanted!!

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by graham.moody

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My company is currently looking at the possibility of customizing Outlook 2000 for use as our contact management system. We have 100+ users and currently have 28,000 records on our existing system.

Before we go any further I would like to speak to anyone who has been involved in similar sized projects or if anyone could recommend an Outlook consultant who could advise us on this.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Graham
UK

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by virtuman

I wouldn't use outlook for that size project. I use outlook for my short list of contacts and a scheduler. <100 people and 1 year of appointments. My file size >100 MB and Outlook is a resource hog.

Better to look at Lotus Notes or something. Especially if you want to do any automated scheduling. Check the IBM website under software.

by mark fenwick

Outlook can be a resource hog, it depends what you want it to do and there are certainly quicker storage retrieval methods for straightforward 'rectangular data' like contact records. But it usually scores very highly in terms of flexibility, particularly when used with Exchange public folders.

Without knowing your circumstances it is impossible to say whether Outlook is good solution or not and, even then, there is no reason why outlook cannot be used to front end data held outside Exchange server.

I have developed solutions for Outlook and Exchange, your project sounds interesting and I would be happy to discuss it with you.

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