[Vtigercrm-developers] Roadmap 6.5 and 7

[Alan Bell]

On 28/04/16 12:01, Preexo wrote:
> So yeah, I would also love to see a fork by the team you suggest @Stacey!
> In case the fork is not going to happen, could Alan, Alan, Joe, Andrea,
> Simone, Manuel, Conrado share with us why this is not an option to them? As
> far as I have understood all of you are living of selling consultation and
> CRM customization to companies... wouldn't it make sense to have your own
> product? Who knows if you would do it so much better than vtiger in the end,
> but at the moment anything is better, really....
> Like Stacey, I also hope you give it a think.
speaking just for myself, what we do is help customers to implement the 
free and open source software that they want in their business. If a 
customer asked us to support their use of Yetiforce we probably would do 
that. If a customer asked us to fork Vtiger . . well they probably 
wouldn't. Customers don't really want us to maintain our own fork of 
Vtiger, each customer has in effect their own fork of Vtiger and they 
are interested in theirs, not creating some new upstream.
Vtiger itself forked from SugarCRM, Joomla! forked from Mambo, forking 
things can sometimes work, if it makes sense to do so. There is a fair 
bit of work involved in forking something and it isn't clear where the 
revenue is for that. It is a technical challenge, a community building 
challenge and a marketing challenge. Vtiger has a decent amount of 
market recognition already, we have some concerns around the way that 
things are being done with the relationship between the open source code 
and the on-demand platform, but I got a heap of merges accepted on 
code.vtiger.com over the past few days, so I am not too distressed at 
the moment.

Alan.