Microsoft and SugarCRM agreement... Vtiger????

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• mikefedyk

  February 2006 Vote Up0Vote Down

  the only thing this will do is give sugar a more restrictive license that will send more people our way.
• vtiger

  February 2006 Vote Up0Vote Down

  alan:
  this doesn't impact vtiger one way or another. to be fair, i don't believe it impacts sugarcrm either - i think it is just more formalized support for ms windows, which every product has to support anyway. i don't believe this by itself changes anything as far as licensing is concerned.
  
  mani
• mikefedyk

  February 2006 Vote Up0Vote Down

  then you would be wrong:
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  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.
• JamieinNH

  February 2006 Vote Up0Vote Down

  i have to agree with mike. i think it's the beginning of changes over at sugarcrm.
  
  i think those changes will be bad for the os users of their product, and over time you will see more and more people requesting migration scripts to go from sugarcrm to vtiger.
  
  i feel, it would be in our best interest to always be ready to assist those people with those type of scritps.
  
  if the sugarteam releases a new version <major> then i think our team should also release a migration script for that version.
  
  i run a business, and part of my business whether i like it or not, is keeping tabs on the competition, and staying ahead of them. i have gotten more buinsess just by being there when the client needed me the most.
  
  anyways.. that is my thoughts. instead of always running away from sugarcrm and trying so hard to distance ourselves from them, we should be learning from them, and passing them. being ready to help any of their users that might want to jump ship to us.
  
  look at any other os project, and you will see migration scritps abound for helping users change their application.
  
  jamie
• loclyn

  February 2006 Vote Up0Vote Down

  over 35 percent of our customers run microsoft windows server

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  does that mean that under 65% run on a more stable platform than windows?
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• its4fun

  February 2006 Vote Up0Vote Down

  loclyn,
  
  that was my assumption too. if 35% run on windows then 65% run on something else which a majority would be linux with some others (bsd, mac, etc...), but the other category is probably down around 5%.
  
  mp