<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body >Joey,<br><br>Thanks for the email, and for all your efforts. <br><br>w.r.t
your decision to go with Sugar CRM, you mentioned the development
activity around the Sugar CRM as one of the key reasons. While vtiger
has a passionate developer community, we do recognize that we have to
simplify the development process to add modules, and more immediately
help users find projects that are already there on the vtiger forge. <br><br>w.r.t
the MS-SQL support, your contributions will certainly be quite useful
to MS-SQL users. I hope some members from the community will pick it up
and maintain it until we get to 6.0 release. We are looking to add
multi-database support in 6.0, so that we don't have to maintain
different branches for different databases.<br><br>I would certainly appreciate any additional feedback you have on your vtiger experience, and areas where we could improve.<br><br><br>Joe, Graham,<br><br>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. <br><br> 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 the
upcoming patch on the blog and the forums. We will be requesting help from the community
to test and provide feedback.<br><br>Your comments are quite valuable to us. <br><br><br>Regards,<br>Sreenivas<br><br><br><br>----On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 <b>Graham Miller <graham901@webenhanced.com.au></b> wrote ---- <br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(160, 154, 255); padding: 6px;">
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Joe Bordes wrote:<br>> This email should be a call of attention.<br><br>Totally agree. And timing is probably getting critical. There are many commercial entities now<br>considering investing in open source development but they need to know the project is going to<br>be there for the long haul.<br><br>> If your goal is to be "The most popular CRM" you need this development<br>> list to be VERY active and have the community adopting your application<br>> for the solution to their problems.<br><br>We will be rebuilding a large proprietary on-line financial planning application into a CRM as<br>the base platform for user logins, profiles, contact history etc etc. The client is willing to<br>invest in open source software and we will probably want some extra programming resources to<br>hire along the way that already know the CRM app really well.<br><br>We evaluated the market of open source offerings and found sugar/vtiger to be the best. Noting<br>the sugarCRM license requirements and our need to totally re-brand the application, we decided<br>that the apparently real open source alternative (namely vtiger) was the right platform and have<br>been watching the list for signs of an active community. So far we have not seen any activity to<br>justify us spending large amounts of time and money further developing vtiger.<br><br>We wait in hope. But that hope is, unfortunately, fading.<br><br>Graham Miller<br>Technical Director<br><br>For great web site hosting, back end web server programming (Perl, PHP and C), and open source<br>software installation and consulting. Choose WES.<br><br>Web Enhanced Solutions Pty Ltd<br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.webenhanced.com.au">http://www.webenhanced.com.au</a><br><br>"Spam emails are the mosquitoes of the Internet -- numerous, annoying and often carrying nasty<br>viruses." - Senator Richard Alston.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Reach hundreds of potential candidates - <a target="_blank" href="http://jobs.vtiger.com">http://jobs.vtiger.com</a> <br>
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