In a world where everything technological is overhyped, the word “revolution” is thrown about easily, with declaring the latest electronic toy or fly-by-night software advance “earth-moving” seemingly a race among media outlets and advertising venues. The sobriquet is often applied to open source technology as well, but this stuff may actually deserve the title. After […]
PreEmptive Solutions (decent name), suppliers of “Enterprise Obfuscation Solution” for the Microsoft .NET environment and Java, announced today that the PreEmptive entrepreneur program has reached over 60 organizations in its first four months of existence. PreEmptive is in a new niche market evolving among startup software development teams, which are using obfuscation tools to provide […]
opentaps has released a new version of its Open Source ERP + CRM Suite. Version 0.9.2 was released on Thursday and is currently available for download on sourceforge.net. opentaps is a fully-integrated ERP and CRM suite combining e-commerce, product catalog, order management, warehouse, manufacturing, accounting, financials, and CRM modules. The opentaps Open Source ERP + […]
An interesting article listing companies that are placing their bets on Open Source.
In what is certain to be the first of many developments made public from the IBM Partner Pavilion at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo running in San Francisco’s Moscone Center this week, Centric CRM has demonstrated what it is calling the first open source application on the open technology platform From IBM, Novell and AMD. […]
In further indication that summer 2006 is not yet over, the annual umbrella industry event LinuxWorld San Francisco runs this week. Arrangers of the event are IDG World Expo and the Bay City’s Moscone Center will play host to the show featuring products, solutions, and analysis of emerging trends. Also promised is new content focusing […]
While many others in the industry were talking in easy in the heat of summer, SpikeSource, a provider of business-ready open source solutions, seems to have been working double time. As reported Friday here at CRMchump, SpikeSource made its biggest move of the year with its release of the "Centric CRM Spike Certified" package to […]
Votaries of open source have one more reason to cheer. SpikeSource, which provides ready-to-implement open source solutions, has added a CRM package from Centric CRM to its range of products. The product is called "Centric CRM Spike Certified" and is an integrated CRM package that helps companies with the usual stuff, i.e. retain old customers, […]
After a quiet period of about six months, Sugar CRM Inc. is back in the news. The provider of commercial open source customer relationship management software today announced the beta release of Sugar 4.5. Originally due to appear in June, Sugar delayed the release to polish it up, explained Sugar CRM chief executive officer John […]
Promising “more open, more MFG,” a triad of announcements came from OpenMFG, a provider of open source-based enterprise solutions for small manufacturers and distributors, this week. Representatives announced the release of the latest update for the OpenNFG enterprise resource planning application, an aggressive new pricing plan, and contribution of two new modules for a leading […]