Cost savings are still the primary driver for organizations choosing open-source software, according to Jay Lyman, an analyst at The 451 Group. However, that impression seems to change after adoption, when more users report that flexibility is the primary benefit they enjoy rather than cost savings, he says. “With the downspin of the economy, how [...]
Entries from May 11th, 2010
ApexTwo and SugarCRM Announce New Implementation Partnership
May 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
SugarCRM and ApexTwo announced today that ApexTwo has been recognized as a silver SugarCRM implementation partner providing best-practice implementation services and solutions for new and current adopters of SugarCRM. ApexTwo has established itself over the last two years as a leading player in producing advanced sales and marketing automation solutions based on the SugarCRM platform. [...]
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What is ‘contributing’ to an Open Source Project? Take three
May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Content Management
Back in Nov 2006, I wrote the following blog post: What is ‘contributing’ to an Open Source Project? Every so often I like to take a look at how we are now doing, in comparision to how we have been doing in the past. Having taken the time to do so recently, I’m really encouraged, [...]
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Joomla! 1.6 help screens: Call for help
May 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Content Management
With the release of Joomla! 1.6 beta 1 looming large, the time has come to start ramping up the user documentation effort in anticipation of that milestone. One of our highest priority goals is to have a complete set of up-to-date help screens available by the time 1.6 goes stable and preferably before then so [...]
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Fluid – Next Generation Templating
May 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Content Management
Fluid is the next generation templating engine, that will be used in TYPO3 Phoenix. It was backported to TYPO3 v4 so everyone can enjoy the advantages of a full templating engine. But what are…The full story
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Perspectives on the SugarCRM Annual Conference
May 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
The genius about SugarCRM though isn’t really in the software, or even in the fact that it’s open source. What ultimately has the potential to give this software a long life is the market the company has created around its product. Not only are developers making careers out of modifying SugarCRM to solve various data [...]
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Are you using Sugar and loving it?
May 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
Please vote for Sugar 5.5 as your ‘Favorite Software as a Service’ product! The full story
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April 30, 2010 Bug Day Report
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Content Management
The latest Bug Day was a very busy time. A lot of people participated and several companies and schools responded to the call for offering meeting places.The full story
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Release of TYPO3 4.4beta2
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Content Management
Today, the TYPO3 community released the second beta of the upcoming version 4.4 of TYPO3. There is already a feature freeze in place since beta1, thus the last weeks have been all about bugfixing -…The full story
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SugarCRM Gives Azure a Try
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
Oram thinks customers will like that Azure makes it easy to move both an application and data between an in-house data center and Microsoft’s. While SugarCRM supports both MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server, it runs SQL Azure in Microsoft’s cloud. Oram says companies will take advantage of that compatibility. “You can opt to run SugarCRM [...]
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