news.com.com — SugarCRM sells out to Microsoft, cnet reports here's a little from the header: Microsoft and open-source enterprise applications vendor SugarCRM unveiled a technical collaboration Tuesday under which Sugar CRM will release its next customer relationship management suite under the Microsoft Community License.
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smerndmgyFeb 15, 2006
Evil?? did they eat a baby or something? or does doing business with microsoft make you evil now? i guess 99% of computer users in the world are evil, right? They made a deal with microsoft and released an open source product. This was done so it would work better along side microsoft products. EVIL!!!!!! HOW DARE 2 COMPANIES COOPERATE TO MAKE A BETTER PRODUCT FOR THEIR USERS??????? JESUS IS SO PISSED RIGHT NOW. not everything involving microsoft is automatically "evil".
jerbaccaFeb 15, 2006
Thank you VulnoX
corptFeb 15, 2006
What do socialists sitting in their parents basemest rebelling against everything need a CRM for?
datapoohbahFeb 15, 2006
Yes inaccurate indeed.
Closed AccountFeb 15, 2006
Oh dear god.. I hate you people..Jolly good for MicroSoft (emphasis on the S)!
hindufredFeb 20, 2006
Just goes to show what happens when you have lots of money and very little brains. The $ugarCRM guys show this off in quite a nice manner, all $$$ cash $$$ and very little $trategy.Idiots
kreegieAug 20, 2006
vtiger is Sugar CRM - it is the same code base rebranded under a different name
skenagleJul 16, 2007
Great response...
kevrichardsonMar 17, 2008
#1, Microsoft could care less about CRM.#2, CRM as a vertical market was captured by Salesforce.com about 3 years ago...CRM is not what people are looking for now...#3, what people are looking for is a platform to build what's important to them. Something that can be shared, something that is scalable and affordable and allows the company to outsource all but it's core.SugarCRM while interesting...is just a pawn played in the larger chess game of trying to make the market leader (Salesforce.com) irrelevant. I think there are about 40,000+ customers who will stand in their way.
jgrandolphDec 2, 2008
The article is ok but I wish it had addressed more about SugarCRM remaining open-source. I get the feeling that partnering with Microsoft automatically closes it up but I'm sure that is not the case. Either way I think they'll see a less than favorable response from a lot of the open-source community.
xbroMay 1, 2009
I think Microsoft is guilty of eating not just one but lots of baby, juvenile and grown up companies.. their second choice does seem like making living dead. Any company they do not chew on was not worth their time.Bad karma is why some think MS is evil. Words like.. warmth, love, generosity, win-win, open source are not associated with MS, if they were lol.