SugarCRM has added new capabilities to its CRM offering, these include new customization features, on-demand capabilities and an AJAX email client. Sugar 5.0 underwent three rounds of beta testing that involved 30,000 users. SugarCRM is doing its bit along with Microsoft, which has released CRM 4.0, to add spice to the CRM market and get […]
The news about Oracle today is reading like a press-release version of that 2001 Japanese cinema classic, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. The software behemoths aren’t destroying Tokyo with fire breath and the like, but there is a lot of bellowing and stomping going on involving three of the biggest names […]
“Do you think we’re gonna sell out? I say if we do we get the hell out.” – Public Enemy, “Bring the Noise” Now this is the way blogging should work. Disturbed by rumors that Linux-based platform provider Ubuntu was in negotiations with Microsoft vis-à-vis a new collaboration agreement, Ubuntu Foundation Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for […]
According to good ol’ First Coffee over there at TMCNet, Lumen Software, a vendor of CRM and commercial open source Saas solutions, has announced it will be employing the PostgreSQL-supported LAPP stack for its open source development platform Lumenation. After consideration of PostgreSQL and MySQL, which is part of the LAMP stack, developers at Lumen […]
SugarCRM Inc., those large specialists in commercial open source customer relationship management software, today announced the opening of its new Northeast regional office in New York. Fifteen-year IT sales and consulting veteran Cameron Jackson will serve as regional vice president of corporate sales to “bolster relationships with its community of customers, partners and developers in […]
Centric CRM, a developer of open-source Customer Relationship Management technology, today announced the company will receive investment funding from Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of good old Intel Corporation. Centric CRM will use the funds to pursue growth opportunities forecast for the CRM technology industry, “and,” said Centric CRM CEO David Richards, “to expand […]
Red Hat held its Red Hat Summit 2007 this week in beautiful San Diego, California, and so came quite a few announcements of the development going on at the biggie in open source solutions. Today (Saturday!) the Red Hatters released the Red Hat Exchange (RHX) into general availability. RHX extends Red Hat’s open source architecture […]
Open source customer relationship management software provider SugarCRM Inc. has announced the Customer Self-Service Portal and Knowledgebase for Sugar Professional and Sugar Enterprise customers. The setup seeks to assist companies in improving communications with customers while reducing costs by enabling self-service in key CRM business processes. SugarCRM’s Customer Self-Service Portal promises to allow firms to […]
SplendidCRM Software, Inc., a provider of open source Microsoft .NET-centric Customer Relationship Management solutions has announced the launch of an upgrade to its flagship platform SplendidCRM. Splendid version 1.4 is being touted especially for its incorporation of “key .NET 2.0 technologies,” namely components which allow system integrators to add user-customizable features including AJAX to applications. […]
At SaaScon 2007 in Santa Clara, California, last week, there was much buzz about the future of the industry with regard to open source software. One particular speakers panel session was entitled “Tapping into Open Source for SaaS” and sought to examine “how open source software and Software as a Service models are rapidly converging […]