[Vtigercrm-developers] Happy New Year

[Stacey Johnson]

@Preexo @Alan ===> no way they will do so. Wanna bet?

Stacey

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Preexo <preexo at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Happy new year to everyone too!
> I have only joined the community of developing users one year ago. The
> decision was made after looking at the big other players and we have not
> fully regretted the decision yet, even though it's not been easy with
> vtiger. I'm employed with a global company, which has only recently started
> to adopt vtiger instead of the previously custom build CRM. The change is
> being done office by office/country by country and with every migration of
> another office in another country I learn more about the system, it's
> advantages and also it's disadvantages, since every office will add a
> little
> bit to the list of requirements.
> Some requirements have actually been so big that we outsourced the
> development and we are very happy that vtiger has such a big orbit-industry
> of companies earning money with enhancing the system and writing
> extensions.
>
> But vtiger as a core system is moving very very slow and not much has been
> added since one year honestly. At the same time the on-demand version seems
> like it's jumping ahead and becoming a completely separate product. More
> and
> more often we are facing limitations that have been solved in the on demand
> version already and they can not be solved by any extensions.
> If this development is continuing, we can soon start to talk about vtiger
> like we talk about SugarCRM now: A fake open source project.
> In fact I have started to look into migration paths to vtiger forks (none
> that can actually compete with vtiger) and the SugarCRM fork SuiteCRM.
> SuiteCRM are following the open source spirit much closer and and to me as
> a
> user I can see a brighter and opener future than with vtiger (at the
> moment).
>
> On-demand is absolutely no option for us as a company and many of our
> customization and extensions would not work on it in anyway!
>
> Alan Lord (News) wrote
> > Or you make the On-Demand platform code base open source too - I doubt it
> > will affect your revenue stream very much at all. In fact it would
> > almost certainly be a benefit for customers who want to move from
> > On-Demand to Open Source or vice-versa in the future.
>
> I completely agree with Alan and I also highly doubt that having the same
> code base for on-demand and open source would have any impact on your
> revenue. You could for example just make all the extra modules payable
> extensions and people will happily buy them but still have all the freedom.
> It's the core improvements that are missing in the open source version that
> have been added to the on-demand version and make it a completely different
> product.
> The truth is, a shared code base would make you a real open source project
> again and make you the most promising of all open source CRM, a rising
> instead of falling star under the open source CRM projects.
> And I could stop scratching my head on how to migrate everything properly
> to
> a different system.
>
> Have a good year everyone, I have a feeling that 2016 is going to be a
> groundbreaking year for open software, there are quite a few big projects
> in
> beta state in the pipe which can be real game changers to the really big
> ones if picked up by the masses - for me personally 2016 will be all about
> decentralizing the internet again!
>
> Best regards
> Preexo
>
>
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