SugarCRM aims big with developers
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| Roberts dismissed the need for another programming language - SugarCRM
| uses PHP on MySQL - but believes SugarCRM will benefit from a customer
| backlash against traditional, closed-source applications sold by SAP
| and Oracle.
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| [...]
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| "For us, the developer conference [comes as] we are just getting to
| the size and scale where out projects are huge... 100,000 users plus
| 1,200 paying corporations within two years. We are at that point...
| [where] you should hold good, meaningful industry events that provide
| value," Roberts said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/30/sugarcrm_tools/
Days ago:
Executive departs software maker SAP
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| Business software maker SAP AG said Wednesday top executive Shai Agassi,
| once considered a potential successor to Chief Executive Henning Kagermann,
| would leave the firm to pursue interests in alternative energy and
| environmental policy.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070328/ap_on_bi_ge/germany_sap
'Boring' SAP Dismisses Open Source Threat
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| Several factors will help protect SAP's ERP market share from open
| source, Kagermann said.
|
| He believes the boredom factor will be one of them, suggesting that
| open source developers like to work on "fun" projects, adding
| improvements that they can boast about.
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http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=957082A8%2DB43F%2D44B8%2DA0CC%2D29CFA8CF468F
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