361 blog results for "CRM"

Monopoly is a dreaded word for the open-source community, so why are we as prone as anyone else to embrace natural monopolies?

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

Open source has become as much about business as it has code. These people are seen as perpetuating the most market growth among the open-source set.

Posted in Software, Interrupted by Dave Rosenberg

Box.net's direct support for Salesforce.com is a glimpse into the way enterprises will manage their data in the future.

Posted in Software, Interrupted by Dave Rosenberg

The community that may be most attracted to the cloud-computing model in the long term are those who have the least direct interaction with the underlying technologies that enable it--application end users.

Posted in The Wisdom of Clouds by James Urquhart

To attract new developers to the seemingly moribund Windows Mobile, Microsoft should try an open-source complement strategy similar to that of SharePoint.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

New analytics engine for Socialcast microblogging service shows companies who their most valuable "connectors" are.

Posted in Rafe's Radar by Rafe Needleman

Microsoft still has a robust brand, but it really needs to improve its open-source story to extend that brand into the future of computing.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

After this week's DemoFall, longtime organizer Chris Shipley is handing over the reins. Here's a look at some of the best and worst companies that have presented there over the past 13 years.

Posted in Geek Gestalt by Daniel Terdiman

DimDim and Acquia have two new cloud offerings that promise to deliver customer value while funding the vendors' payroll.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

Open source has changed the enterprise IT software market but is in turn being changed by that market--and not always in positive ways.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay