The open source community can’t provide a drop-in replacement for expensive, high-end CRM applications from the likes of Salesforce.com or Siebel just yet. Still, you might be surprised at the level ...

In the ever-crowded CRM market, vendors must differentiate themselves to stand out from competitors. Pipeliner CRM founder and CEO Nikolaus Kimla tested that principle when he was forced to rebuild ...

In simple terms, open source CRM is a type of customer management software whose source code is freely available for anyone to view, modify, and enhance. Unlike proprietary CRM systems, which come ...

Back in 2004, the idea of an enterprise application based on open source code was off the wall. Today, SugarCRM is a striking example of what community-based development and viral marketing can do The ...

Over the last 40 years, the open-source software (OSS) movement has been a moving target for detractors and supporters. Its free-to-distribute code philosophy competed against proprietary software to ...

Open source enters 2026 as core enterprise infrastructure, with growing pressure around sustainability, governance, funding, ...

So what are people using for CRM solutions nowadays? Specifically, locally hosted (i.e. own server) running on a typical LAMP stack, and open source. We have a client that we could build a bespoke ...