Session Building the Next Generation Commercial Open Source Company John Roberts Track: Products & Services Date: Tuesday, April 19 Time: 2:20pm - 3:05pm Location: Ballroom H TrackBack Open source software is being recognized as a smart enterprise solution due to better innovation, the higher quality in solutions, and lower TCO.  Many enterprises are disenchanted with what proprietary solutions have delivered over the last decade, and are demanding better integration, lower cost, better service and support, and more flexibility with the software to better synchronize with their workplace.  SugarCRM is delivering enterprise caliber commercial open source CRM applications and has rapidly become one of the largest open source application projects world wide.  This panel discussion will be around founding, creating, and managing a large open source business application project.

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