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CRM Turkish Coffee With Chris Harrick, Talkin' Open Source CRM
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| CH: Okay, let me use my company for an example, since I'm familiar with it.
| We write and release code under the GPL v3. The application is downloaded
| thousands of times per day by people all over the world. They provide the
| company with feedback on product quality and direction which is factored back
| into the development process.
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| They all write feature extensions which can be plugged into the product due
| to the modular nature of the application. We produce revenues from companies
| with more complex needs and dedicated support requirements who can subscribe
| to our commercial professional and enterprise products.
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http://call-recording.tmcnet.com/topics/crm/articles/32816-crm-turkish-coffee-with-chris-harrick-talk-open.htm
Kill The Data Center
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| We also knew that open source was moving beyond the operating system and the
| data center and moving into database and core functionality, particularly
| around business intelligence and content management. That also provided a lot
| of benefits that SaaS provides, namely a subscription model where you pay for
| the software and tools and support you're really using, as well as a
| community to draw from. With Salesforce.com, every time someone comes up with
| a clever feature it's embedded in the software and we're automatically
| upgraded. That didn't used to be the case. I'm getting the benefits of the
| large community of people using the software.
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/06/29/ingres-data-center-tech-cio-cx_es_0630ingres.html
Recent:
WordPress is Open Source
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| Six Apart has recently decided that the best way to win back customers
| fleeing their platforms is to target WordPress, which is a new strategy they
| call competing. (What have they been doing the past 7 years?) A good example
| is this exchange between a commenter on Valleywag and Byrne Reese, the lead
| developer of Movable Type:
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| Sundown: “@anildash: what part of Wordpress is not open source?”
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| byrnereese: “@Sunnduwn - I think that is a question better asked of
| Automattic. Anil, and certainly not Six Apart, has never been briefed, nor
| has anyone for that matter been presented with an accounting of what is open
| and closed source at Automattic.”
|
| Okay, here’s some accounting:
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| WordPress is 100% open source, GPL.
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| All plugins in the official directory are GPL or compatible, 100% open
| source.
|
| bbPress is 100% GPL.
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| WordPress MU is 100% open source, GPL, and if you wanted you could take it
| and build your own hosted platform like WordPress.com, like edublogs.org has
| with over 100,000 blogs.
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| There is more GPL stuff on the way, as well. :)
|
| Could you build Typepad or Vox with Movable Type? Probably not, especially
| since people with more than a few blogs or posts say it grinds to a halt, as
| Metblogs found before they switched to WordPress.
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http://ma.tt/2008/03/wordpress-is-open-source/
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