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sugarCRM

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via ITRmanager.com (in French)

At Innoveo, we are using intensively sugarCRM since the start of our company, for managing in a structured way our contacts, leads, opportunities and marketing material. At the end, our sales-funnel is managed in sugarCRM.

We are using the professional version of sugarCRM, which is a commercial open source CRM software. This allows us to connect in a very easy way Microsoft Outlook and sugarCRM (archiving of emails of example). Below you can have an idea about the different versions of sugarCRM:

sugarCRM

ITRmanager has just posted an interesting interview with the CEO of sugarCRM, John Roberts:

  • founded in 2004
  • 180 employees
  • 4’000 customers of the commercial editions of the product, more than 500 in Europe
  • 450’000 users
  • 5 million downloads
  • one of the biggest PHP project, with more than 600’00 SLOC (Single Lines Of Code)
  • 40 software developers that are working full-time on the product
  • published under GPL v3
  • 4 founding rounds for a total of $46 million
  • their goal is not to propose free software, but a very good functional product for a cheaper price than its competitors, because of a different sales and marketing structure
  • 80% of license sold, 20% on-demand
  • only the software engineers of sugarCRM are developing the core-product, which represents 50 to 60% of the overall code
  • about 100 external developers are contributing actively
  • about 12’000 developers are representing the sugarCRM community and developing extensions (about 500 extensions so far)
  • about 80’000 users are building the overall community, participating to the forums, roadmaps, tests, etc.
  • IPO was planned for 2009, will be postponed
  • about $20 million cash-reserve
  • positive cash-flow planned for Q1/2009

Articles, conferences, reports, books, collaterals and video

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Above an updated list (per October 18, 2008) of the different publications, articles, conferences, reports, books, collaterals and video linked with my work in the last years by Helvetia, ecenter solutions, and now, innoveo!

 

  ARTICLES        
1 31.10.2002 German, English Switzerland Schweizer Versicherung pdf DE, pdf EN, url
2 26.11.2004 French France 01 Informatique pdf, url
3 06.01.2006 English USA CIO Insight pdf, url
4 01.02.2006 English Rusia The Insurer pdf, url
5 11.04.2006 English USA FinanceOnWindow pdf, url
6 11.04.2006 English USA Finextra pdf, url
7 12.04.2006 English USA CRMtoday pdf, url
8 13.04.2006 English USA InfoWorld pdf, url
9 20.04.2006 English Australia ComputerWorld Australia pdf, url
10 24.04.2006 English USA ComputerWorld pdf, url
11 30.04.2006 English USA Enterprise Networks&Servers; pdf, url
12 15.05.2006 English NewZealand ComputerWorld NewZealand pdf, url
13 30.06.2006 German Switzerland Netzwoche pdf, url
14 01.07.2006 English USA Insurance Networking pdf, url
15 10.07.2006 English USA Computerwire pdf, url
16 24.07.2006 English USA GlobalServices pdf, url
17 04.09.2006 German Germany ComputerZeitung pdf, url
18 06.11.2006 English USA Baseline pdf, url
19 01.11.2007 German Switzerland ICT in Finance pdf, url
           
CONFERENCES        
1 16.04.2003 German Switzerland Euroforum – VersicherungsIT pdf, url
2 15.09.2005 German Switzerland IT-Strategie-Forum pdf, url
3 29.11.2005 English Russia International Conference pdf, url
4 15.05.2006 English Italy HP Enterprise Executive Summit pdf, url
5 19.09.2006 English Belgium euroOSCON pdf, url
           
REPORTS        
1 19.11.2005 English USA Thoughtware Worldwide pdf, url
2 01.11.2006 English USA Hurwitz & Associates pdf, url
3 01.12.2006 English USA Butler Group report pdf, url
4 16.01.2007 English USA Celent pdf, url
5 01.06.2007 English USA ovum report pdf, url
           
COLLATERALS        
1 01.01.2001 German, English Switzerland HP Success Story pdf DE, pdf EN
2 01.01.2002 German, English Switzerland HP Success Story pdf DE, pdf EN
3 23.10.2006 English USA HP Success Story pdf
4 01.08.2008 English Switzerland HP Marketing Collateral pdf
           
VIDEOS        
1 01.10.2006 English USA HP Video url

What Marc Fleury is now doing

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Marc Fleury, the founder and former CEO of jBoss, has left RedHat after some months of incorporation. He seems now again to be quite busy with his next project called OpenRemote.

The OpenRemote team also includes the creator of Asterisk Mark Spencer, JBoss veterans Juha Lindfors, Christian Bauer, Java X10 project creator Wade Wassenberg, and Linux Home Automation founder Neil Cherry.

Together they, and others, plan to create a complete open source home automation including the OpenRemote Controller hardware, OpenRemote Console Applications to make use of the iPhone and iTouch as a universal remote (although any device with browser will work), the OpenRemote Manager, and the Beehive Database.

“Figuring out the business model, this is one thing I can help with. But for right now, let’s focus on a community. Without a community, there is no OSS model. The community is what you do with it.”

Exciting idea and project!

Impressive figures from the Linux kernel development

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Great post about some impressive figures from the Linux kernel development.

  • There have been almost 10,000 patches in each recent quarterly Linux kernel release.
  • Releases include work from ~1,000 developers and ~100 companies.
  • Since 2005, Linux has had more than 3,600 individual developers and more than 250 companies contributing to the kernel.
  • The individual development community has tripled in the last three years.
  • The top 10 developers have contributed 15% of changes, and the top 30 developers have contributed 30% of changes to the kernel.
  • Linus Torvalds is 27th on the list of contributors with most changes over the last few years. He has 495 to his name.
  • More than 11,500 or 14% of kernel changes have come from developers with no commercial entity backing their Linux development.
  • Another 13% of changes come from developers with ‘unknown’ commercial affiliation.
  • When we get to actual companies, Red Hat leads with 9,351 kernel changes, or 11.2%. Next is Novell with 8.9%, IBM with 8.3% and Intel with 4.1% of kernel changes.
  • More than 70% of all kernel development is demonstrably done by developers who are being paid for their work.
  • From the 2.6.11 kernel to the 2.6.24 release (1,140 days), there were an average of 2.8 accepted patches applied to the Linux kernel tree per hour.
  • An average of more than 3,600 lines of code is added to the Linux kernel tree every day.
  • Since 2005, the kernel has grown at a steady rate of 10% per year.

Gosh, if this is not showing the incredible health and dynamism of the Linux community!

cross-posted on the innoveo blog.

Why MySQL sold out

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First time I am reading some explanations (apart from the $1bn deal ;-) coming directly from Marten Mickos, MySQL‘s CEO, concerning their decision to sold out to SUN, instead of going for an IPO.

The fact that it all happened so quickly makes it obvious that Sun’s and MySQL’s organizations have a cultural affinity that enables such fast convergence on a major strategic deal. What was it that justified the deal to start with?
Here is my entirely personal view of the factors that made the deal happen:

  1. Jonathan Schwartz is a brilliant CEO and he has a great team. Who wouldn’t want to work for him?
  2. Sun has always had the same focus as MySQL on the networked world. Focus and alignment!
  3. Sun has become the world’s strongest proponent of free and open source software. We are happy to be part of that!
  4. Sun has changed its strategy to include partnerships with former competitors. Hey, coopetition is what we always did!
  5. Sun has never stopped innovating or stopped investing in technology. Impressive!
  6. Sun has a huge field operation that can bring MySQL to more customers faster. Thank you!
  7. MySQL would be a great complementary fit in Sun’s product portfolio. We like being useful! We love being uniquely useful!
  8. Sun’s corporate culture is among the best a startup can ask for. We can work from home! We can innovate. We are thrilled!
  9. Sun is a bold and fun disruptor again, and we see a huge upside in its strategy. I am not saying that success is a given, but I am saying that Sun’s new strategy is one of the most exciting this industry has to offer. We are all in!
  10. Sun was really eager to get us on board and we were treated with the greatest respect from the start. (And I hope we did the same in return)

In light of the above, the decision ultimately was easy. Initially it was not easy at all, because we all had such a strong commitment to go public and continue life as an independent company. It was hard work to change our minds. But once we saw that within Sun we would get the same benefits as going public, but with more resources and operational backing, we realized that Sun was for us like an IPO, only better.

Comprehensive, pragmatic and courageous decision!