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 Open Source CRM Solutions

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Company	Product
Anteil	Open CRM
CampWare	Cream CRM
CentraView, LLC	CentraView CRM
ComPiere, Inc.	ComPiere CRM
Daffodil Software Inc.	Daffodil CRM
Concursive Corporation	ConcourseSuite
Digita srl	Tustena CRM
GNU BIS	GNU BIS CRM
The Hipergate Working Group	Hipergate CRM
Interlogika	Netsymphony
OFBiz.org	OFBiz CRM
Ohioedge	Ohioedge CRM
Open-App.com	SellWin CRM
openCRX.org	openCRX CRM
Open Customer	Open Customer CRM
OpenSourceCRM Project	OpenSource CRM
SourceTap Inc.	SourceTap CRM
SplendidCRM Software Inc.	SplendidCRM
SugarCRM, Inc.	Sugar Suite
Tiny sprl	Tiny CRM
vtiger.com	vtiger CRM
XRMS	XRMS CRM

 

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    Further Reading

 

Check out this group of interesting articles from BusinessWeek

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/tc_06opensource.htm

And this, from CIO Magazine

http://www.cio.com/archive/021506/opensource.html

This is an excellent article suggesting a methodology for evaluating open source solutions. I was pleased to see that our own review process covers most of these issues!

http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_eval.html

 

 

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    Rich's Recommended Web Sites

 

        First, get to know the LAMP platform, consisting of Linux+Apache+MySQL+Perl.

http://www.onlamp.com/

     Linux

http://www.linux.org/

http://www.linux.com/

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/

    Apache

http://httpd.apache.org/

http://www.onlamp.com/apache/

    MySQL

http://www.mysql.com/

http://www.onlamp.com/onlamp/general/mysql.csp

    Perl

http://www.perl.org/

http://www.perl.com/

   Ajax

http://adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX

http://www.ajaxmatters.com/r/welcome

   OpenOffice

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

 

http://www.openoffice.org/

    The Open Source Maturity Model

http://www.navicasoft.com/pages/osmm.htm

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    Rich's Recommended Reads

 

Succeeding with Open Source by Bernard Golden

Open Source Enterprise Solutions: Developing an E-Business Strategy by Gunnison Carbone, Alex Lesniak, Duane Stoddard

Open Source Solutions For Small Business Problems by John Locke

Open Source Software: Implementation and Management by Paul Kavanagh

Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond

Buy these books from Amazon.com!

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