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<p lang="en-US"><span>It's amazing how much you can discuss, how many people participate in that, and how huge the leader of the project is, and despite all that, for the past 2 years barely anything has been done. The majority of the people who are still on the list are companies that create commercial modules, for whom changes [especially the significant ones] are inconvenient, because they will require module fixes. For those who gain profit from the lack of features no changes is great news, for Vtiger users - not so much.</span></p>

<p lang="en-US"><span><span><span>The vision of Vtiger 7 appearing in Q2/2017 will be postponed a few times, and to make it even worse, nobody knows what it will include, whether or not the final effect is worth the wait [time will tell]. At the moment, Vtiger as the project's leader isn't really involved, and this can't work in the long run, especially if people want to treat Vtiger's development as part of their business, and not just a toy.</span></span></span></p>

<p lang="en-US"><span><span><span>On one hand I'm happy with what's happening [no core development, hundreds of missing functionalities substituted by ill-considered expensive modules]; on the other hand I know that it will also negatively impact everyone, because Vtiger and SugarCRM influence the way the entire open source CRM community is perceived. Compare the development of these systems within the last 4 weeks:</span></span></span></p>

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<p><span><span><span><span>Vtiger: </span></span></span><a href="https://github.com/YetiForceCompany/vtiger/pulse/monthly" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span><span><span>https://github.com/YetiForceCompany/vtiger/pulse/monthly</span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></p>

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<p><span><span><span><span>YetiForce: </span></span></span><a href="https://github.com/YetiForceCompany/YetiForceCRM/pulse/monthly" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span><span><span>https://github.com/YetiForceCompany/YetiForceCRM/pulse/monthly</span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></p>

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<p><span><span><span><span>coreBOS: </span></span></span><a href="https://github.com/tsolucio/corebos/pulse/monthly" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span><span><span>https://github.com/tsolucio/corebos/pulse/monthly</span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></p>

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<p><span><span><span><span>EPESI: </span></span></span><a href="https://github.com/Telaxus/EPESI/pulse/monthly" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span><span><span>https://github.com/Telaxus/EPESI/pulse/monthly</span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></p>

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<p><span><span><span><span>SuiteCRM: </span></span></span><a href="https://github.com/salesagility/SuiteCRM/pulse/monthly" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span><span><span>https://github.com/salesagility/SuiteCRM/pulse/monthly</span></span></span></a></span></p>

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<p><span><span><span><span>SugarCRML </span></span></span><a href="https://github.com/sugarcrm/sugarcrm_dev/pulse/monthly" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span><span><span>https://github.com/sugarcrm/sugarcrm_dev/pulse/monthly</span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></p>

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<p lang="en-US"><span><span><span>Looking at this only you can figure out how many people are involved in these systems, how huge the communities are...you can only see the last month's work, but the situation has been similar for all these systems for the past year. I watch these [and many more] projects all the time to learn from them as much as I can. What I can see is the fact that open source is not doing well, there are many small projects, and each of them takes away valuable part of the community. Additionally, there's a bunch of people and companies who just want to take, and give nothing in return.</span></span></span></p>

<p lang="en-US"><span><span><span>If projects like coreBOS, EPESI, YetiForce, and Vtiger were merged, we would be in a completely different place now, and what we could achieve would be bigger and better than any given project.</span></span></span></p>

<p lang="en-US"><span><span><span>PS. Congrats on the upcoming version 6.5 that doesn't patch any critical security errors in Vtiger and client portal :D Each new release keeps surprising me more and more, great job ;).</span></span></span></p>

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<div>Z poważaniem / Regards</div>

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<div><strong>Błażej Pabiszczak</strong></div>

<div><em>Chief Executive Officer</em></div>

<div>M: +48.884999123<br />E: <a title="Mail do Błażej Pabiszczak" href="mailto:b.pabiszczak@yetiforce.com">b.pabiszczak@yetiforce.com</a></div>

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