Open source saves money. Less money spent on complex sales cycle, more effort going in bottom up innovation, it has clearly won the hearts and minds of implementors in IT food chain. What has traditionally been difficult was to conclusively win this debate at the ‘suit’ level. CFOs had their concerns, in some cases valid, [...]

John Roberts, CEO SugarCRM announced during a panel discussion at the annual O’Reilly Open Source Conference that the next version of Sugar Community Edition will be licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3, scheduled late this year. “Sugar Community Edition 5.0 will fully support GPLv3 when the software is made available,” he told [...]

SugarCRM 4.5 has plenty of Ajax goodies. Which is good as it helps in getting impatient sales folks in front of the screen. Besides that there is not much to talk about in the new release. Long time back somebody blasted Siebel for being too expensive for charging millions of dollars. CRM is still considered [...]