Posted in Open Source, SugarCRM, Sun on Apr 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Blogger Hank Williams has an interesting post in his excellently titled blog “Why Does Everything Suck” detailing the challenges that “free” presents to many of the Internet and software-based business models that have prevailed for the prior 30 years. William’s thesis is that there are not enough ad dollars to support free models and equates […]
Posted in Open Source, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, Sun on Mar 25th, 2008 No Comments »
EnterpriseDB today announced that it has secured $10 million in Series C funding, which includes backing from IBM. With a total of $37.5 million in funding to date, the company certainly isn’t hurting for cash.
Nor is it hurting for competition, as CEO Andy Astor has made it perfectly clear that it intends to go “straight […]
Posted in Microsoft, Open Source, Random, Sun on Mar 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Dave Rosenberg eluded to an interview in his blog yesterday that he conducted with Matt Asay and Daniel Lyons during this week’s episode of Open Season. For those of you not familiar with Lyons, he is a senior editor with Forbes magazine, and otherwise known by his alter ego, Fake Steve Jobs, thanks to his […]
Posted in Application Design, SugarCRM, Sun on Feb 26th, 2008 No Comments »
A few months ago I worked with SugarCRM co-founder and CTO Jacob Taylor on a technical white paper that exhibited a lot of the performance and scalability capabilities of SugarCRM. It was a great learning experience and a great way to show how scalable SugarCRM is as a PHP-based application. Too many people still hold […]
