Ok… really I have no beef with SugarCRM, just their license. They seem like a good company (revenue and customer focused) and their product appears to be making a good impression with customers. I’ve looked at their demo, and it does look rather functional. OK, that’s out of the way. SugarCRM well funded, eager company, decent product.<\/p>\n
However, the fact remains, they are NOT open source<\/a> (refer here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>) Even recently they signaled to the world<\/a> what they<\/i> think “open source is” is in actuality “public source” by releasing SugarCRM under the Microsoft Community License<\/a>.<\/p>\n Eweek thinks SugarCRM will be alone<\/a>. I agree… In fact, I encourage SugarCRM to actually standardize on the Microsoft Community License! It meets your needs and actually refers to itself honestly<\/a>. In other words, if you think of open source like public source (and you do) then just be a community source<\/i> or public source<\/i> licensed company. Don’t use the term open source just to get a marketng bump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok… really I have no beef with SugarCRM, just their license. They seem like a good company (revenue and customer focused) and their product appears to be making a good impression with customers. I’ve looked at their demo, and it does look rather functional. OK, that’s out of the way. SugarCRM well funded, eager company, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}