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Entries from February 28th, 2008

10 Ways to Smoothly Integrate CRM

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement

?Start small,? advised Martin Schneider, senior manager of product marketing at SugarCRM Inc., a Cupertino, Calif. provider of open-source CRM solutions. ?When large enterprises try to fuse all of their systems ? with varying code strings and proprietary APIs ? that is a recipe for failure. Quick wins and smaller, manageable projects will make success [...]

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Microsoft Promises To Be Less Secretive, More Open

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement

Muglia took a fairly pragmatic approach to rationalizing the decision. The head of the Server and Tools division recognized that the commercial open source movement has gained a lot of momentum in recent years, and rather than fight the biggest purveyors of commercial open source, such as JBoss, SugarCRM, XenSource, Zend, SpikeSource, and Novell, Microsoft [...]

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SugarCRM?s Dublin office sweetens deal with new jobs

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement

The manufacturing process behind the development of software has changed. The traditional proprietary software model has been challenged by SugarCRM, among others, where the notion of an open source project could be used for serious business software.The full story

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Nomination for TYPO3 Awards on the Snowboard Tour

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Content Management

Do you remember the TYPO3 Awards on the Snowboard Tour 2004 in Kitzbühel? They were great fun, and showed off quite a lot of interesting projects – as well as a popstar! Reason enough, thought Mikael…The full story

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Open Source, Big Deal: MySQL’s $1 Bil Payday

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement

Analysts say open-source companies are gaining the sales and customer reach to attract larger acquirers. Buyouts could continue at the expense of initial public offerings, because many open-source entrepreneurs just can’t turn down big-dollar offers.The full story

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Omni Delivers GroupWise Integration for SugarCRM

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement

“We are pleased that Omni chose SugarCRM as their first CRM integration target for Riva,” said Paul Oh, Director of Technology Alliances for SugarCRM. “SugarCRM is the market leader in the Commercial Open Source CRM community. Novell GroupWise is the leader in the Business-Driven Linux collaboration space. Riva GroupWise Integration for SugarCRM allows companies to [...]

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JoomlaTutorials Updated with Joomla 1.5 Tutorials

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Content Management

The ever popular www.joomlatutorials.com (http://www.joomlatutorials.com/) has been updated to now include both Joomla 1.0.x as well as the new Joomla 1.5 animated tutorials. As well as the animated tutorials, we also have a number of downloadable pdf manuals that we link to. Be sure to use and recommend our site to all new Joomla users. [...]

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TYPO3 4.2 Beta 2

February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Content Management

The core team is proud to announce the second Beta of TYPO3 version 4.2. As we had a feature freeze with the release of Beta 1 earlier this month, this Beta is entirely a bug fix and minor…The full story

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TYPO3 4.2 Beta 1

February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Content Management

The core team is proud to announce the first Beta of TYPO3 version 4.2. Unfortunately after having the first beta packaged three days ago we noticed that a patch submitted just before caused some…The full story

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Open Source Community Wary of Microsoft’s Pledge

February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement

John Roberts, CEO of Cupertino, Calif.-based open source CRM vendor SugarCRM, says regardless of Microsoft’s intentions for opening up, it signals a positive trend in software development. He calls it a “step forward” for software developers and Microsoft. “There really isn’t a need for software companies to write software in secret anymore,” he said. “If [...]

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