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 attendees. [...]

Wall Street Journal’s unsubstantiated story is fast becoming rumor of the day on blogosphere. Speculations range from some kind of deal to possible acquisition.
Erik Schwartz on InfoWorld is cautioning on massive changes which can come if this alliance goes through:
“..Rather, all applications are simply part of a pull down menu with users accessing each application [...]

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 [...]