Posted in Apple, Mobile on Apr 30th, 2008 No Comments »
The iPhone has been receiving a lot of attention lately from IT departments, and a recent article in the Wall Street Journal raised some interesting points about the adoption of the iPhone within corporate America. I for one use a Blackberry, and have never been all the keen on purchasing an iPhone. When first released, [...]
Posted in CRM, Mobile on Apr 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Matt Asay made a nice callout yesterday to an announcement that DataSync made: full BlackBerry support for Zimbra and SugarCRM. Customers of SugarCRM will now be able to leverage DataSync to look up contacts, log cases, and track accounts on a BlackBerry. The announcement is a testament to the growing momentum we’re experiencing, with more [...]
Posted in Google, Mobile, Open Source on Apr 7th, 2008 No Comments »
A lot of reports are coming out that Google’s Android open source mobile operating platform is more than ready for prime time, with some heavy hitters like HTC quietly announcing phones that will run on Android. I like that Google is looking to be disruptive – and open up the mobile market. But in the [...]
Posted in Mobile, Random on Apr 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Was reading the New York Times online and saw that AT&T are going to be streaming videos to certain phones. Awesome, first they lock-in the iPhone, and now they are going to set a standard for how NOT to provide mobile content. What I mean is that AT&T is planing to not only run advertising [...]
Posted in Apple, Mobile on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
This article in today’s Wall Street Journal raises some interesting caveats and opportunities presented with the adoption of the iPhone within corporate America. When first released, the iPhone was simply too expensive for American businesses to adopt as a sound alternative to the Blackberry. But despite security concerns, adoption remains high, and represents a perfect [...]
Posted in Mobile, Open Source, SaaS, salesforce.com on Feb 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
The power/service outages that both RIM and Salesforce.com suffered the past week are nothing new. Both companies have dealt with these well-publicized events in the past, both because of technical issues or upgrades. SaaS providers have always claimed non-disruptive upgrades are an important reason why customers should buy online, but as is often the case, [...]
Posted in Application Design, Conferences, CRM, Mobile, Open Source, SaaS, SugarCRM on Feb 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Manoj Javadevan, SugarCRM’s senior director of product marketing, outlined some of the hot announcements that partners, customers, and the media can expect to hear from SugarCRM over the coming year. At the top is Sugar Data Center Edition (DCE), a new product offering built on top of the Sugar 5.0 framework. DCE will be a [...]
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 Mobile, Open Source, Uncategorized on Jan 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Virgin Mobile made a notable open-source splash yesterday when they announced they implemented MySQL to run their text-messaging SMS database. The announcement carries significant weight, as it shows that support for MySQL, the LAMP stack, and other open source infrastructures, is continuing to grow within the enterprise segment. The volume of database queries that Virgin [...]
Posted in Application Design, CRM, Google, Mobile, Open Source, SaaS on Dec 17th, 2007 No Comments »
TechIQ just released a list of 10 OSS companies it feels will dominate in 2008. (I guess without writers for Letterman – this will have to suffice.) The list is pretty interesting – and its always nice when your company gets a nod – but I found it somewhat disturbing. A lot of the companies [...]
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