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As the global economic crisis deepens, companies are considering options they might once have rejected out of hand in order to cut costs. Open source vendors have long waved the lower-TCO banner, and the recession seems to fueling business in the sector. It’s not quite clear, though, whether a switch to open source will result [...]

Four years after it was launched, SugarCRM now counts 4,000 customers of its commercial open source software. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company recently held its annual SugarCon conference for customers and developers. We caught up with CEO John Roberts, who discussed how SugarCRM is approaching cloud computing and open source applications in the cloud, mobile CRM, [...]

I’ve been saying for years that open source is about capitalism, not communism.
I used to laugh when Microsoft ignorantly slandered open source as “anti-American” because the inverse was so clearly the case (PDF chapter from Open Sources 2.0).
Now Forbes, hardly a bastion of communist thought, is running an article that profiles several prominent open-source capitalists, [...]

SugarCRM, the open source customer relationship management software vendor, is giving its user base a sneak preview into its next generation of products.
At its third annual SugarCon gathering Monday, the company previewed new CRM features, including an improved Web services framework, additional Cloud Connectors, and mobile customization features.
SugarCRM Previews Upcoming Cloud, CRM Features | Cloud [...]

One big trend we saw last year was companies trying to “get right” by open source.
Even Microsoft and Oracle sought accommodation with the open source imperative.
But this has also existed in the open source movement. We saw it at SugarCRM. We see it in companies with whom, on the surface, open source has no quibble.
Getting [...]

Microsoft, the commercial software behemoth from Redmond, Washington, continues to dip its toes into the open source pool. Microsoft’s Open Source Technology Center (OSTC) is home to the software vendor’s relationships with a few open source products such as MySQL and SugarCRM. The OSTC has been hard at work lately — especially, in the web [...]