Posted in Mobile, Open Source on Jan 28th, 2008 No Comments »
The Nokia/Trolltech deal is interesting, and I will see what comes of that. I like how Linux and open standards in general are penetrating more and more of the mobile world - it is important since the kinds of technology visions - even here at SugarCRM - will benefit in the end if users can […]
Posted in Open Source, Random, SAP, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle on Jan 25th, 2008 No Comments »
I just left a comment on the following blog post about “green energy.” Essentially the post is about diesel engines getting VC investment - as a reaction to the green movement.
Personally, I was annoyed by the consideration that a more efficient, yet still dependent on petro-fuel engine was considered “green.” Continuing to invest in […]
Posted in Google on Jan 25th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve never been one to do heavy thinking on a Friday, so I’ve decided to tackle a lighthearted issue that a colleague here at SugarCRM mentioned, and one that I’m sure have annoyed plenty of you: Internet marketing.
In case you haven’t noticed, Yahoo! has been doing some tinkering with their homepage, and annoying myself and […]
Posted in Open Source, salesforce.com on Jan 24th, 2008 No Comments »
It is hard to shut up the analyst voice inside my head.
Last night I went to the movies to see “There Will be Blood” (Which was, probably intentionally, short on blood but long on amazing performances especially by Daniel Day Lewis. I highly recommend the film.) and when I went to the concession stand, […]
Posted in CRM, Open Source on Jan 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Like CRM over the past decade, it appears open source concepts are taking root at the educational level. According to a new report by Datamonitor, primary and secondary schools and universities will spend $489.9 million on open source software by 2012, up from $286 million now. Besides cost justifications, institutions also cited more control over […]
Posted in Open Source, Random on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
The other day I wrote a post about “open source space travel” somewhat in jest…
But that fabulously kooky Sir Richard Branson has unveiled his plans for Virgin Galactic’s actual take on public space travel.
I have to admit, this kind of rules.
What’s best, these babies will run on Linux…
Imagine paying all that money to go in […]
Posted in CRM on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Today I spoke with the IT project manager of a European-based company that deployed Sugar On-Demand and is now considering moving to an on-site deployment of either Sugar Professional or Enterprise. During the conversation, the project manager, whose company will remain anonymous for now, provided an answer to one of my questions that I wasn’t […]
Posted in CRM on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Ben Worthen of the Wall Street Journal wrote up a nice, succinct review of the latest Gartner survey of CIOs regarding IT spend in 2008.
Business intelligence is the biggest priority, but there were some surprises:
Another trend that emerged from the survey: Close to a third of the businesses surveyed plan to increase their investment in […]
Posted in Open Source, Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
A new study by an open source vendor caught my attention today for as much what it exposed about open source software as it proved. Palamida, which sells both products to conduct audits of open source software and offers audit services, released the results of a study they conducted on open source vulnerabilities. In the […]
Posted in CRM, Open Source, SAP on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
As Microsoft releases its latest version of a primarily midmarket CRM product, I am thinking only about our enterprise customers. (Maybe it is because I have been working with so many of our larger customers I hadn’t met before planning for SugarCon next month.)
To be sure, selling CRM into the enterprise is hard work. SugarCRM […]
