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We care about open source ecosystem and open source CRM software so we have to comment on this. Whatever happened to the Spikesource Spike Net for SugarCRM ? It seems just after 6months of announcing this they went their different way and now world has changed (including the websites).
Spike is splashing this aggressive pitch for [...]

Bruce Richardson of AMR Research is going on record with pretty interesting call:
“I’ve been thinking and talking a lot about the impact that web services and service-oriented architectures (SOAs) will have on the enterprise applications market, especially ERP. My conclusion: rapid adoption of SOA will lead to the end of the ERP market as we [...]