Re: SugarCRM?

Helge Hess <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.discuss.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4. Jan 2005, at 22:41 Uhr, Michael Dean wrote:
> There is a different model altogether with Sugar.

Thats a statement - the question is _what_ is different ;-) [wrt the 
functionality]

> The free package is actually crippled, with additional functionality 
> in the not for free package.

Do you have any information on what the paid package (really) improves 
on?

SugarCRM seems to attract quite a lot of people and if OGo can or 
already does provide better functionality it might make sense to extend 
the project scope. "Groupware" often means just "mail", "calendar" and 
"tasks" to users.

OGo certainly isn't what one would consider a full CRM system, but I 
don't have the impression that its particulary worse than SugarCRM 
either.

> A more interesting comarison is with open-exchange.

Well, SuSE OpenExchange is now officially dropped by Novell, I don't 
think a comparison with that is very interesting anymore (but feel free 
to raise points!). But I guess you mean Open-Xchange ;-)

Feel free to do a comparison and post results here, we would be 
interested to learn and discuss what we miss or were we are better. 
Though IMHO there are more interesting groupware projects available 
than this "yet another Java servlet".

I suppose for most the major drawback of all Java projects is that they 
require proprietary software by Sun (the Java virtual machine and 
libraries). Even in case you don't care about the "free" in "free 
software", this prohibits inclusion in free Linux distributions like 
Debian, Ubuntu or Gentoo (AFAIK Fedora as well?).

Greets,
   Helge
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