Ribbit, the VOIP platform that was bought by British Telecom last year, announced the winners of its $100,000 KillerApps challenge today. In the Business category, the winner was Sugared Frog, an application that integrates Ribbit with SugarCRM. With the help of Sugared Frog, users of SugarCRM’s open source solution can use Sugared Frog to organize [...]
Entries from March 31st, 2009
The Open Source CRM Argument
March 26th, 2009 · No Comments · SugarCRM
Open source is the rage in enterprise server-based computing and is poised to consume fixed and mobile telephony as well. Does this mean that open source is now a crucial aspect of CRM’s progress? The answer is a solid yes, but not necessarily for the reasons you think. Given that CRM is a heavyweight line [...]
Survey Identifies Growing Opportunities for Open Source in Tough Economy
March 25th, 2009 · No Comments · SugarCRM
A panel of top experts in the commercial open source industry, including executives from Acquia, Novell, Mozilla, Sun and SugarCRM, came together at a recent industry event to announce the results of the North Bridge Venture Partners? annual Future of Open Source survey.Collected from 435 respondents, the survey results highlighted a variety of significant issues [...]
How to choose the right open source solution for your business
March 25th, 2009 · No Comments · SugarCRM
While options for open source solutions and other types of free software abound, many IT executives struggle with finding the best alternative that fits their business’ needs and their IT architecture. Issues range from the functionality of the product to the strength of the community support, and whether an upgrade to a paid license will [...]
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Rhodes unifies smartphone app dev
March 25th, 2009 · No Comments · SugarCRM
In a move to unify software development for mobile systems, Rhomobile will launch on Tuesday version 1.0 of Rhodes, an open source framework to build applications for major smartphone operating systems. With Rhomobile’s Rhodes 1.0, developers can write applications once using HTML and the system builds native applications for smartphones including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, [...]
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SugarCRM Selects Connector Tool for Google Calendar as SugarForge.org Project of the Month
March 19th, 2009 · No Comments · SugarCRM
SugarCRM has selected the MyCRM GmbH Connector Tool for Google Calendar as the SugarForge.org Project of the Month. MyCRM GmbH, an open source and SaaS systems integrator, created the Connector Tool for Google Calendar to enable users to blend all business and personal activities within the SugarCRM instance into one view in Google Calendar. This [...]
John Roberts to Participate in Keynote Panel at Open Source Business Conference
March 17th, 2009 · No Comments · SugarCRM
SugarCRM today announced that John Roberts, co-founder and CEO, will participate in the North Bridge Venture Partners Keynote Panel, at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) on Tuesday, March 24 at 9:30 a.m. at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Joined by executives from Sun/MySQL, Novell, Mozilla-Firefox and North Bridge Venture Partners, the discussion will [...]
John Roberts to Participate in Panel at InfoWorld?s Open Source Business Conference
March 17th, 2009 · No Comments · SugarCRM
SugarCRM today announced that John Roberts, co-founder and CEO, will participate in the North Bridge Venture Partners Keynote Panel, at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) on Tuesday, March 24 at 9:30 a.m. at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Joined by executives from Sun/MySQL, Novell, Mozilla-Firefox and North Bridge Venture Partners, the discussion will [...]
TYPO3 4.3 Alpha 2
March 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Typo3
The TYPO3 Core Team is proud to announce the second alpha release of TYPO3 version 4.3. Get a short overview of the most importand changes. Read the entire story here
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SugarCRM Talks Cloud Computing, Open Source
March 9th, 2009 · No Comments · SugarCRM
Today, the buzz around cloud computing is continuing to grow as the technology offers the ability for companies, especially startups and small to medium sized businesses, to access applications and platforms that were not affordable in the past as well as increase productivity, flexibility and leverage a number of other benefits. One company that has [...]