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sugarcrm 5.1 sails into beta with mobile phone support, monitoring, advanced reports: SugarCRM 5.1 sails into beta with mobile phone support, monitoring, advanced reportsFollowing SplendidCRMIt is a pleasure to see the leader become the follower. SplendidCRM has had fully customizable support for mobile platforms for several months. Now if Sugar would only learn to store their data in the database...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, SugarCRM 5.1, mobile, SugarCRM, mobile phone, beta, SplendidCRM, monitoring, phone; Discussion threads 2008-05-02
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
sugarcrm raises $20 million in funding: SugarCRM, which makes open source customer relationship management software, said it has raised $20 million from New Enterprise Associates as well as its current investors. To date, SugarCRM has raised $46 million. Investors include New Enterprise Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Walden International. With Sun's acquisition of...; Tags: SugarCRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Open Source, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-07
News to know: Cosmos, a new OS; Google Apps; Cisco worries; Patches galore: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Cosmos: An open-source .Net-based microkernel OS is born Microsoft runs its datacenters on 'Autopilot' Dan Farber: Google launches free Team Edition of Apps. Larry Dignan: Cisco's second quarter in line; Sees slower growth ahead ...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Time Warner Inc., Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., Operating System, Patch Management, Cisco Systems Inc., SugarCRM, Virtualization, Cable, Network Technology, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Storage; Blog posts 2008-02-07
sugarcrm gets Blackberry, Sun OS support: SugarCRM is now delivering on-demand support for Blackberry Smartphone users in the SMB space and new installers for Solaris/OpenSolaris. As the open source CRM company's annual conference began today in San Jose, Calif., exec announced a partnership with iEnterprises that will give mobile Blackberry users real-time...; Tags: Mobile, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., RIM BlackBerry, SugarCRM, Mobile Edge Express, Smb/Sme, Sun Solaris, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-02-06

sugarcrm 5 sweetens the deal with on-demand service, AJAX e-mail: SugarCRM 5 sweetens the deal with on-demand service, AJAX e-mailContinued design flawsPrior to 5.0, SugarCRM would modify HTML files on the file system as part of their layout engine. Now, their new meta-data driven UI modifies PHP files on the file system. Having a system that edits files...; Tags: SugarCRM, SugarCRM 5, file system, on-demand service, AJAX, on-demand, e-mail; Discussion threads 2007-12-19
sugarcrm 5 sweetens the deal with on-demand service, AJAX e-mail: A leading open source customer app provider launched a major upgrade of its customer relationship management CRM software that features on-demand capabilities, an AJAX e-mail client and enhanced customization. SugarCRM on Monday announced general availability of Sugar 5.0, which underwent three rounds of beta testing by more...; Tags: Software, AJAX, On-demand, SugarCRM, E-mail, SugarCRM 5, Sugar Community Edition 5.0, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2007-12-18
Open source swimming instructor: The Register has a profile today of Mark Radcliffe, the kind of advertising a lawyer can't buy, the kind that is priceless. Radcliffe, who works at DLA Piper, has been behind some of the most controversial legal efforts in open source over the last few years. He's...; Tags: Open Source, SugarCRM, Square, Attribution, Register, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-08-31
Why sugarcrm made peace: Why SugarCRM made peaceIPO more driven by revenue?Dana, I think that the public offering has more to do with Sugar's proprietary success than it's OSS cred. OSS cred is required to get a user base. But, a non-paying user base doesn't really appeal to Wall Street. I...; Tags: SugarCRM, Sugar; Discussion threads 2007-08-28
Why sugarcrm made peace: SugarCRM's summertime peace deal with OSI was motivated by marketing considerations.This became clear to me reading CEO John Roberts' hype concerning his latest release, Sugar 5.0. It's all about the Internet, about push vs. pull, about the glories of the open source business model.Not that there's anything wrong with that....; Tags: OSI, Open Source, SugarCRM, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-08-27
sugarcrm releases new version and talks IPO: While salesforce.com gets most of the headlines about browser-based CRM, and spends more than half its revenue on sales and marketing, SugarCRM has been taking a different route. The commercial open source CRM company's CEO John Roberts prides himself on spending frugally on marketing and sales, and pouring resources...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., SugarCRM, IPO, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-08-27
Microsoft CRM to Salesforce.com: It's Lunchtime: Microsoft CRM to Salesforce.com: It's LunchtimeOracle found out that even offering the EXACT same product against RedHatdid not move any significant number of customers from RedHat Enterprise Linux, even with substantial discounts. You will find the same thing here, especially since Microsoft has a HUGE trust problem. It will be...; Tags: Sales force management, Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise software, Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., SugarCRM, CRM, Microsoft CRM; Discussion threads 2007-07-10
Interview with sugarcrm's Chris Harrick: Matt Asay at CNET blogs has an interview with SugarCRM's Chris Harrick. He's director of product marketing at SugarCRM and had been at Siebel.A few key points from the interview: Harrick doesn't spend a lot of time on the ideological side of open source. Harrick didn't know a whole lot about open...; Tags: General, Linux, Open Source, Software Infrastructure; Blog posts 2007-07-06
Open Source Provider Gains Microsoft Technical, Marketing Assistance; Sees Sales Climb: SugarCRM Customer Relationship Management wanted to enhance the ability of its open source software to work with Microsoft technologies - and convince potential customers running Microsoft environments to adopt it. So, SugarCRM partnered with Microsoft, gaining technology and marketing assistance. A year after releasing its enhanced-for-Microsoft product, SugarCRM saw the...; Tags: Open Source, Microsoft Corp., Sales, SugarCRM, Marketing Research, Marketing; Case studies 2007-05-31
Would Sugar under Windows be as sweet?: SugarCRM is a leading open source CRM package for Linux. Customers ask for it by name.But most system integrators work with Windows, not the Linux environment SugarCRM is optimized for. To help these folks make the sale SplendidCRM has rewritten SugarCRM using Windows technologies. You get the basic SplendidCRM application...; Tags: General, Implementations, Software Licensing, Strategy, Database Management, mass market, resellers; Blog posts 2007-02-22
The risk in demanding credit: The risk in demanding creditAlready fixedAs the Secunia advisory states, this security vulnerability has already been addressed in recent patches to all Sugar editions.Open source patching is FAST.It's never an excuse. I see a lot of this in WordPress. Just patch it. Open source patching is FAST.SugarCRM deserves congratulationsThe specific...; Tags: SECURITY, Sugar, SugarCRM; Discussion threads 2006-12-21
Is sugarcrm open source?: Is SugarCRM open source?SugarCRM is not open sourceWant prove? simple follow this link where John Roberts goes off on the guys from vtiger crm earlier this year for using code from SugarCRMhttp://forums.vtiger.com/viewtopic.php?t=7&highlight=sugarcrmQuote from John:vtiger is a lie - the legal product is called SugarSales from SugarCRM Inc.We do not think...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, open source, SugarCRM, CRM, contribution; Discussion threads 2006-12-07
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
Podcast: sugarcrm CEO says attribution in open source licenses is about fairness: Podcast: SugarCRM CEO says attribution in open source licenses is about fairnesslicense merger defense?"SPL is nothing more than a merger of two existing open source licenses: the Mozilla Public License and the Attribution Assurance License. "If this is meant to defend SPL, it does a bad job. Merging two licenses...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Podcasts, open source license, fairness, open source, merger, SugarCRM, podcast; Discussion threads 2006-12-06
Podcast: sugarcrm CEO says attribution in open source licenses is about fairness: Meet John Roberts. Roberts is CEO and co-founder of SugarCRM. To many SugarCRM is thought of as a provider of open source-based customer relationship management solutions. But is it? Theres no question that SugarCRM provides a customer relationship management CRM solution. But is it an open source one? Roberts says...; Tags: Meet John Roberts, SugarCRM, SPL, Open Source, IT Management, Legal, Podcasts, General; Blog posts 2006-12-06