Comments on: Microsoft Gets Sweeter On SugarCRM, Open Source http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/07/31/microsoft-gets-sweet-on-sugarcrm-open-source/ Channel News, Reseller News and Channel Partner Programs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kim Bahir Andersen http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/07/31/microsoft-gets-sweet-on-sugarcrm-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-104311 Kim Bahir Andersen Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:40:57 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=4210#comment-104311 At TechEd in Los Angeles this may, MS also disclosed full support for Safari and Firefox on the Exchange 2010 webmail. Again a classic opportunity for 1st and 2nd class citizens, which they have chosen not to use. They are getting more and more open. The IIS team goes hard for having PHP run faster on IIS than on Apache, which also goes to show their commitment to getting part of the open source platform to run on the operating system. In my personal opinion, Microsoft wants to create fertile grounds for open source applications, and thus, with free access to AD, .NET etc., make it easy for open source businesses to slip, and bind themselves to Windows. They can co-exist with *nix and open source, but make it soo much easier to bind them to windows :) At TechEd in Los Angeles this may, MS also disclosed full support for Safari and Firefox on the Exchange 2010 webmail. Again a classic opportunity for 1st and 2nd class citizens, which they have chosen not to use. They are getting more and more open.

The IIS team goes hard for having PHP run faster on IIS than on Apache, which also goes to show their commitment to getting part of the open source platform to run on the operating system.

In my personal opinion, Microsoft wants to create fertile grounds for open source applications, and thus, with free access to AD, .NET etc., make it easy for open source businesses to slip, and bind themselves to Windows. They can co-exist with *nix and open source, but make it soo much easier to bind them to windows :)

]]> By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/07/31/microsoft-gets-sweet-on-sugarcrm-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-104308 The VAR Guy Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:34:51 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=4210#comment-104308 Johnny S: Thanks for your perspective but in this case The VAR Guy respectfully disagrees with you. Think back to the 1990s; Microsoft was thrilled to have Lotus Notes and Oracle running on Windows NT Server -- even if that meant competing with Lotus and Oracle in the applications space. Fast forward to the present, and the Windows Server team wants to remain central to the ISV community -- whether the ISV is open or closed source. Johnny S: Thanks for your perspective but in this case The VAR Guy respectfully disagrees with you. Think back to the 1990s; Microsoft was thrilled to have Lotus Notes and Oracle running on Windows NT Server — even if that meant competing with Lotus and Oracle in the applications space. Fast forward to the present, and the Windows Server team wants to remain central to the ISV community — whether the ISV is open or closed source.

]]> By: Johnnny S. http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/07/31/microsoft-gets-sweet-on-sugarcrm-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-104307 Johnnny S. Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:04:36 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=4210#comment-104307 Microsoft probably trying to passivisation of Sugar CRM to make it considered as easy reachable and free in order to make commercial customers think twice and choose more professional solutions such as their prodcut, to leverage their Dynamics CRM sales. Microsoft probably trying to passivisation of Sugar CRM to make it considered as easy reachable and free in order to make commercial customers think twice and choose more professional solutions such as their prodcut, to leverage their Dynamics CRM sales.

]]> By: Jef Spaleta http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/07/31/microsoft-gets-sweet-on-sugarcrm-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-104300 Jef Spaleta Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:37:29 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=4210#comment-104300 SugarCRM..... They are also listed as an RHX partner at Red Hat. https://www.redhat.com/wapps/isvcatalog/company.html?company=10913 https://www.redhat.com/wapps/isvcatalog/product.html?product=141 Hey here's a fun fact... did you know that SugarCRM is no longer available in Canonical's partner repository? After announcement in 2007 about availability for Ubuntu SugarCRM packages those packages were only made available for exactly one Ubuntu release...Dapper. SugarCRM…..
They are also listed as an RHX partner at Red Hat.
https://www.redhat.com/wapps/isvcatalog/company.html?company=10913
https://www.redhat.com/wapps/isvcatalog/product.html?product=141

Hey here’s a fun fact…
did you know that SugarCRM is no longer available in Canonical’s partner repository? After announcement in 2007 about availability for Ubuntu SugarCRM packages those packages were only made available for exactly one Ubuntu release…Dapper.

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