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Is SugarCRM open source?

David Berlind has a long interview, available as a podcast, with SugarCRM President John Roberts today. The key question -- is SugarCRM really open source?Roberts insists it is. The SugarCRM license merely combines elements from two existing open source licenses -- the Mozilla Public License and the Attribution Assurance License.Trouble...

Tags: SugarCRM, badge, marketing, Database Management, Legal, Software Licensing, Applications, General

Blog posts 2006-12-07

SugarCRM launches application marketplace

SugarCRM joined the ranks of Salesforce.com and WebEx today in creating a commercial marketplace of applications and extensions to the base CRM platform. SugarExchange starts with 100 applications certified by SugarCRM which is based on open source code, including more than 40 available for purchase. SugarExchange has its roots in...

Tags: SugarCRM, open source, SugarExchange, John Roberts

Blog posts 2006-10-04

Making CRM standard and sweet

There may be as many as 30 million organizations which can take advantage of Customer Relationship Management CRM systems. So why do only about 20,000 have them?Cost. Or so says SugarCRM CEO John Roberts. So while most CRM vendors specialize in a vertical -- sales, transactions, government -- Sugar is...

Tags: Sugar, CRM

Blog posts 2006-07-26

SpikeSource and SugarCRM light the LAMP

During the Open Source Business Conference I sat down for a podcast interview with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL; Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource; and John Roberts, CEO of SugarCRM. The three open source moguls are flush with recent VC cash infusions and have partnered on Spike Stack for Sugar...

Tags: SugarCRM, Marten Mickos, open source, John Roberts

Blog posts 2006-02-16

Chief justice nominee carries slim record on tech

Chief justice nominee carries slim record on techOh boy[i]" By now, it's well known that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts upheld the arrest of a girl accused of snacking on a lone french fry inside a D.C. subway station, but his stance on technology matters remains murky."[/i]I'm much more interested...

Tags: John Roberts

Discussion threads 2005-09-06

Report: Supreme Court nominee Roberts owns stock in VoIP provider

A review of U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts stock portfolio was posted early this morning on the website of respected media industry publication Broadcasting & Cable magazine.The report shows that Roberts- currently a U.S. Circuit Court Judge- currently owns between $100,000 and $250,000 of Time Warner stock.Time Warner Cable...

Tags: VoIP, JUDGE, Roberts, John Roberts

Blog posts 2005-08-07

The anti-marketing of SugarCRM

"Software is bought, not sold." That's the credo of John Roberts, co-founder and CEO of open source CRM software start-up SugarCRM. Roberts asks, "Why can't the best product win, rather than who spends the most on marketing and sales?" He boasts about never having made a face-to-face sales call. "We...

Tags: marketing, Roberts, John Roberts

Blog posts 2005-02-07

Additional Resources

Net Neutrality: Hit satire coming to a theatre near you

The world is a simple place, until someone wants to tell you what to do.  The realization that not everyone believes in common ground that surrounds each of us seems to be a new discovery to some. The sanctity of individual requirements is wrapping around our lives with a plethora of effects that...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Actor, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Open source enterprise software shakeout

Open source enterprise software shakeoutNo shake out hereI see FOSS doing very well while M$ is 'shaking' thousands of jobs every quarter.The FOSS strategy is working!I didn't blog it because...I couldn't. I have too much skin in that game. But if you check Twitter, you'll see that I...

Tags: FOSS strategy, open source project, open source, commercial open source company, Open source enterprise software shakeout, enterprise software shakeout, Sun Microsystems Inc., enterprise software

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

SugarCRM launches express edition that comes with onsite and cloud accounts

SugarCRM has introduced an express edition and with it a two-for-one deal that includes an on-site software account and cloud account for one low price.  And it's a good one: $7 per user per month. The express edition is based on the community edition, which, of course...

Tags: SugarCRM, Edition, Community Edition, Professional Edition, Sugar Express, Sugar Open Cloud, Smb/Sme, Linux, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Free Content “Bad for the Consumer� (Says Cable)

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- You probably thought that the best thing about the Internet is that content of all kinds â€" from news to stock prices to TV shows â€" is free. But there is no such thing as free content. And don’t be surprised if by...

Tags: Cable Company, Video, TV, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-04-01

Video: Is Aristotle on Twitter?

Panel: Jim Brown, William Burdette, moderator, John Jones, Trish Roberts-Miller, Jillian Sayre University of Texas If Aristotle were on Twitter, he would be a big re-tweeter. by Andrew Mager

Tags: Video, Twitter, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-17

U.S. Supreme Court rules for AT&T in antitrust suit

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday for a subsidiary of AT&T in an antitrust lawsuit accusing it of anti-competitive practices over high-speed Internet access. The justices unanimously rejected a claim that AT&T's Pacific Bell Telephone subsidiary had engaged in a "price squeeze" aimed at driving...

Tags: Antitrust, AT&T Corp., Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-25

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Second Verse, Different Than the First

Industry Giants -the New Adults on the Block Most of these might not be surprising to you but they are to me. With maybe the exception of Sage...and NetSuite....and RightNow and.....ah well.  I guess they aren't really all that surprising.  But to some degree, IBM and Cisco are surprising. ...

Tags: Strategy, Application, NetSuite Inc., IBM Corp., CRM, Zach, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-16

'Memoryze' utility pinpoints malware code in live memory

Jamie Butler, a Windows internals expert who co-wrote the definitive book on rootkits, has created a free forensics tool capable of finding malicious code in live memory. The utility, called Mandiant Memoryze, was released at this year's Hack in the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ...

Tags: Memory, Malware, Tool, Mandiant Memoryze, Rootkits, Flash Memory, Microsoft Windows, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-10

SugarCRM wants to be the Linux of the CRM world

SugarCRM seems to be doing quite well, at least well enough to rankle its larger competitor Salesforce. John Roberts, the CEO of SugarCRM says Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce wasn't too pleased when he found out SugarCRM was hosting its user conference at the Marriott, just a few yards...

Tags: CRM, Finance, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Investment, IPO, Linux, Sales, Sales Force Management, Salesforce.com Inc., Site License, SugarCRM, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-05

Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?

Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?Toshiba Cell Laptop anyone?...[url=http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=laptops&articleId=9102518&taxonomyId=66&intsrc=kc_top]FYI[/url]Slap Yellow Dog Linux on it and you are good to go!Do we know if backwards compatibility is holding back......progress? Or is it just purists who would like to see legacy support end?Currently x86 outperforms US T2 in just...

Tags: Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Real Bottom Line, Linux STILL, Linux architecture, Intel x86, Linux, slate

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

WiMax saved: Sprint, Clearwire form joint venture; Google, Intel among backers

Sprint and Clearwire have combined their WiMax businesses to form a new venture that will be focused on next generation broadband services. The company will be backed by $3.2 billion from the likes of Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. This new venture,...

Tags: Google Inc., Clearwire Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc., Sprint Communications, Intel Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-07

SugarCRM 5.1 sails into beta with mobile phone support, monitoring, advanced reports

Open source CRM star SugarCRM has released into beta testing an upgrade of its platform that offers new wireless support and vastly enhanced reporting capabilities. SugarCRM 5.1, which is available for testing now, supports mobile phones including the Blackberry and iPhone as well as advanced reporting and analytics, data import...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Monitoring, Cell Phone, Beta, SugarCRM, SugarCRM 5.1, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBC

Six hot open source startups and projects got notice at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Not surprisingly, many of them are in software categories deemed most vulnerable to open source disruption, including collaboration and conferencing, social publishing, sales automation, application deployment and developer tools....

Tags: OSBC, MindTouch, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-27