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Sean Michael

Sean Michael is a writer who focuses on innovation and how science and technology intersect with industry, technology Wordpress, VMware Salesforce, And Application tech. TechCrunch Europas shortlisted her for the best tech journalist award. She enjoys finding stories that open people's eyes. She graduated from the University of California.

SugarCRM 5 Pulling Against Closed Source CRM

The multi-billion-dollar market for CRM software is hotly contested by closed source vendors like SAP, Oracle and Salesforce.com among others, all of whom spend tens of millions of dollars marketing their wares. Can open source compete? John Roberts, CEO of…

John Roberts, CEO, SugarCRM

John Roberts is a man on a mission to change the CRM industry. As the founder and CEO of open source startup SugarCRM, Roberts is competing in an industry with strongly entrenched and well-financed competitors. Roberts officially launched SugarCRM in…

Sugar 4.5 Gets ‘AJAXed’

Article courtesy of Internetnews.com. With the 4.5 release of its open source CRM package, SugarCRM is capitalizing on its growing popularity in the space, with downloads doubling from 400,000 to 800,000 in six months and a Microsoft partnership highlighting its…

SugarCRM Sweetens Open Source CRM

SugarCRM 4.0 is set to debut this week with new features in the commercial open source CRM enhanced workflow, reporting and marketing automation software. The latest version is the seventh major release since SugarCRM started back in April 2004 in…