I just had a great talk with the always erudite and enlightening Brent Leary. We were talking about some of the great news coming out of SugarCRM – namely the IBM and Hubspot partnerships. In our discussion I made an analogy that I wanted to share. We were talking about how SugarCRM has not been … Continue reading »
Posted in February 2011 …
The Cloud, Big Data, and the Future of CRM
I just read that Basho Technologies, which has created an open source, highly available and fault-tolerant data structure for the cloud called Riak, has landed a cool $7.5m in new funding. The news is interesting, as it shows more and more people are not only banking on NoSQL and other cloud-optimized data architectures from an … Continue reading »
Open Source and the Future of the Cloud
I just read a blog post about Amazon’s use of Oracle in the cloud that I can only call stupid. Just stupid. The post implies that open source will not grow in the cloud because enterprises want the tried and true expensive and inflexible nature of the Oracle database. Wait…what? While I will not argue … Continue reading »
