SugarCRM rubbed me the wrong way in the past. It seemed to me they were just another closed commercial software vendor trying to jump on the open source bandwagon for marketing reasons.
I didn't like their previous license and I'm glad to see they moved to the AGPL for the 6.0 release. Much better than the fake "open source" evaluation license they were using before. Also previous community versions of SugarCRM were severely restricted. It was demo more than a real product which explains why vtiger (a true open source CRM) was higher on our todo list than SugarCRM.
OTOH, SugarCRM is heavily funded and got a lot of press so more users know about it. It's a popular product. With the latest version Basil integrated into the TKLPatch they've changed tactics and now the community version is lacking the commercial version's UI.
It's hard to be truly open source when you need to make big returns to your VC investors and your open source project competes with your commercial product.
Can anyone with experience with both testify how the community version compared with the commercial version? If you don't mind the user interface, is it usable?
Is SugarCRM a true open source project? (I.e., vs vTiger)
SugarCRM rubbed me the wrong way in the past. It seemed to me they were just another closed commercial software vendor trying to jump on the open source bandwagon for marketing reasons.
I didn't like their previous license and I'm glad to see they moved to the AGPL for the 6.0 release. Much better than the fake "open source" evaluation license they were using before. Also previous community versions of SugarCRM were severely restricted. It was demo more than a real product which explains why vtiger (a true open source CRM) was higher on our todo list than SugarCRM.
OTOH, SugarCRM is heavily funded and got a lot of press so more users know about it. It's a popular product. With the latest version Basil integrated into the TKLPatch they've changed tactics and now the community version is lacking the commercial version's UI.
It's hard to be truly open source when you need to make big returns to your VC investors and your open source project competes with your commercial product.
Can anyone with experience with both testify how the community version compared with the commercial version? If you don't mind the user interface, is it usable?