New white paper - Open Source in the Enterprise
During the last five years Open Source has made an inroad into the modern Enterprise IT and many companies can’t imagine living without it anymore. The Open Source eco system has continuously developed making it easier and easier to identify research and introduce Open Source technologies. Optaros has just published a White Paper “Open Source in the Enterprise” that summarizes the history of Open Source and the reasons why Enterprises have adopted many of the technologies. It also gives Enterprises a quick overview on what makes Open Source so powerful and what it means to leverage the benefits of Open Source.
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December 15th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
A recent article on TheStreet.com, “Salesforce Has Something to Be Thankful For” by Ivy Lessner highlights the risks and rewards available to the traditional CRM vendors given current economic conditions. While I agree with much of what the author points out, I did notice a glaring omission in her analysis. There was no mention of open source CRM, namely SugarCRM - an award-winning open source software platform.
Open source software and especially SugarCRM has the potential to come out of the current economic downturn as big winners. Currently, SugarCRM is the leading commercial open source vendor and in a down economy is in a great position to grow at rates even greater than those predicted by Lessner for salesforce.com. Like salesforce.com’s greatest strengths, SugarCRM is subscription-based and can be hosted, however it provides far greater flexibility and lower implementation costs than salesforce.com. In addition, it has more flexibility in its deployment options than salesforce.com which many medium to large-sized companies value for reasons of security, control and integration.
http://levementum.blogspot.com/2008/11/sugarcrm-up-and-to-right-in-2009.html