After all the buzz about SugarCRM at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo this
year in Boston, we caught up with the company's co-founder and VP of Open
Source, Clint Oram, to find out more about his hot new project.
How did you get started with SugarCRM?
The three of us who co-founded SugarCRM, Inc., and the SugarCRM Open Source
Project worked together in the CRM industry for several years and saw that
the time was right for a commercial Open Source CRM application. With my
previous company, I encountered Open Source software and quickly realized how
powerful a software development model it really was. We all saw the
industry-changing implications of what Open Source development so naturally
delivers - open collaboration between the product developers, end users, and
IT i... (more)
The Associated Press (AP), the world's oldest and largest news agency, offers
a service that allows news providers to integrate AP online content directly
into their Web sites. The service, AP Hosted News, is used by approximately
600 affiliate newspapers and broadcasters. The service handles between
150,000 and 500,000 pages of content per affiliate per day, supporting 11,000
concurrent... (more)
Some organizations will find that they are able to make wide use of open
source software, while others will find only limited suitable migration
candidates. Some of the discrepancy will be due to differences across
industries. Industries that tend to make conservative technology decisions,
for example, are likely to have more legacy systems that are difficult to
migrate. But even within ... (more)
When Rackspace Managed Hosting started in 1998 to lease Internet colocated
servers to customers, they went with Linux almost everywhere in an effort to
keep costs down. In fact, heavy use of Linux was standard in the low-margin
managed hosting sector. According to IT manager Eric Evans, "people would be
surprised by how much they would save if they went with Linux." Linux Servers
and a M... (more)
It became apparent to me recently at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo that
our choice of words matters. I was standing at the Mozilla booth when two
guys came up and peered over my shoulder. "They're selling the T-shirts here,
too," one said with disappointment in his voice, "Let's go." I couldn't
believe it - access to the source code isn't enough. Getting award-winning
software at no... (more)