[Vtigercrm-developers] vTiger on MSSQL - 99% complete.

[Sreenivas Kanumuru]

Joey,

Thanks for the email, and for all your efforts. 

w.r.tyour decision to go with Sugar CRM, you mentioned the developmentactivity around the Sugar CRM as one of the key reasons. While vtigerhas a passionate developer community, we do recognize that we have tosimplify the development process to add modules, and more immediatelyhelp users find projects that are already there on the vtiger forge. 

w.r.tthe MS-SQL support, your contributions will certainly be quite usefulto MS-SQL users. I hope some members from the community will pick it upand maintain it until we get to 6.0 release. We are looking to addmulti-database support in 6.0, so that we don't have to maintaindifferent branches for different databases.

I would certainly appreciate any additional feedback you have on your vtiger experience, and areas where we could improve.


Joe, Graham,

We are taking measures to be more proactive on this list. I know it is not a one way street. If we expect developers to contribute to vtiger, we have to help them.  I am confident you will see improvements in this regard going forward. We fully realize the benefits of doing so. 

 In the upcoming 5.0.4 release, about 40 patches contributed by the community are included, besides about 100 or so bug fixes. Tomorrow,we will be posting the details of the development build for theupcoming patch on the blog and the forums. We will be requesting help from the communityto test and provide feedback.

Your comments are quite valuable to us. 


Regards,
Sreenivas



----On Mon, 24 Sep 2007  Graham Miller <graham901 at webenhanced.com.au> wrote ---- 

                                                                                    Joe Bordes wrote:
> This email should be a call of attention.

Totally agree. And timing is probably getting critical. There are many commercial entities now
considering investing in open source development but they need to know the project is going to
be there for the long haul.

> If your goal is to be "The most popular CRM" you need this development
> list to be VERY active and have the community adopting your application
> for the solution to their problems.

We will be rebuilding a large proprietary on-line financial planning application into a CRM as
the base platform for user logins, profiles, contact history etc etc. The client is willing to
invest in open source software and we will probably want some extra programming resources to
hire along the way that already know the CRM app really well.

We evaluated the market of open source offerings and found sugar/vtiger to be the best. Noting
the sugarCRM license requirements and our need to totally re-brand the application, we decided
that the apparently real open source alternative (namely vtiger) was the right platform and have
been watching the list for signs of an active community. So far we have not seen any activity to
justify us spending large amounts of time and money further developing vtiger.

We wait in hope. But that hope is, unfortunately, fading.

Graham Miller
Technical Director

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