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  • CRM: Complex Needs, Challenging Responses
    SugarCRM is making its smarthosted solution more versatile. It will soon come out with Sugar 5.5 that will permit you to make custom applications you had developed with Module Builder for wired-in desktops and laptops available in your mobile. You can do this for existing Sugar applications that come with it.

  • Open Source allies woo U.S. government
    Several open-source software companies and many other allies have banded together in a consortium called Open Source for America to try to persuade the U.S. government to use more of the collaboratively developed software, to participate in its development, and help its practitioners work with the government better.

  • SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin to Participate in Two Panel Discussions at Open Source Convention 2009
    CEO Larry Augustin will participate in two panel discussions atthe Open Source Convention (OSCON) in San Jose. His sessions will focus on what companies need to consider when implementing and enforcing open source licensing and trademarks. Now in its eleventh year, OSCON will focus on the biggest issue in open source today—the rapid acceleration of new technological innovations, and how the industry will define, maintain and extend the definition of open source through the next ten years.

  • Report Names Top Performing CRM Vendors
    Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company, announced today the top performing vendor rankings in its CRM Suites AXIS Report. Aberdeen's AXIS is a report that provides a competitive intelligence perspective that allows organizations insight into the technology providers that helped leading companies achieve superior performance. The research showcases which vendors enabled client success based on the value delivered and the ability of the vendor to support and service its clientele.

  • 101 Open Source Apps for Enterprises
    Last month, an IDC survey of Western European companies found that nearly ten percent were using open source enterprise software. That's surprisingly high for a market where the industry leaders themselves have only a ten percent share. IDC also reported that the leading open source enterprise applications are growing by 20 percent or more per year.

  • ABI Research: Mobile Cloud Computing the Next Big Thing
    A new study from ABI Research has revealed that cloud computing will completely transform the way mobile applications are being developed, acquired, and used. Cloud computing will dramatically reduce the requirement of advanced handsets for running mobile applications, according to the study.

  • 7 tips for CRM integration: QuoteWerks, SugarCRM
    The following advice for customer relationship management (CRM) integration is based on features of the new Aspire Technologies QuoteWerks integration for SugarCRM. Tightly integrated CRM can help manufacturing processes in a variety of different ways.

  • QuoteWerks Offers Users Seamless Integration with SugarCRM
    Aspire Technologies today announced its newly developed QuoteWerks integration with SugarCRM and a new partnership with the leading provider of open source CRM solutions for small, medium, and large enterprises word wide. Under terms of the partnership, QuoteWerks will be offered through the SugarExchange marketplace.

  • Microsoft weighs next-phase in open-source support
    Sam Ramji hinted at deeper work in areas already visited by Microsoft, specifically in the realms of Apache and on PHP.The tactical work has benefited Microsoft's Windows runtime, to stop developers building open-source applications on a PC but deploying to Linux. So, Microsoft's work in recent years has been to improve performance of PHP, MySQL, JBoss, and SugarCRM running on Windows.

  • The Open Cloud route to joined up government
    Several governments have mandated that all their departmental technology deployments be based either partially or wholly on open source software (OSS). The move towards OSS in government is so prominent, that industry research firm Gartner predicts that by 2011 at least 25 per cent of domain-specific software in government offices around the world will be at least partially open source.