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{ 2004 09 07 }

SugarCRM Inc. Commercial Open Source CRM

Related link: http://www.sugarcrm.com/home/

I’ve been looking for a product like ACT or Goldmine, but if you want multiple people using it collaboratively, you’re suddenly an “enterprise” customer, which means thousands of dollars.

Also, they just got a couple million from DFJ, who’s betting on the open source aspect – which has never been applied to CRM.

Draper is cool and I’m glad they’re funding this. I could see this making money like redhat, if done right.

I hope someone makes some client side applications for it so that it can be both web and application based. If some open source linux/win/mac/palm/symbian front ends pop up, they could destroy ACT and GoldMine for real.

Way, way cool.

Posted by Damien Stolarz on Tuesday, September 7, 2004, at 11:22 pm. Filed under general. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. batnight | November 12, 2004 at 4:30 pm | Permalink

    Rich client
    Actually there is another fairly new open source CRM product OpenCRX based on the OpenMDX Java framework. The developers of this product are working on a .NET rich client application for OpenCRX. Check it out at http://www.opencrx.org/.

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