Comments on: SaaS vs. Open Source for SMB’s? A No-Brainer.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:30:58 +0000

Open source is definitely the way to go in terms of cutting costs but for companies lacking IT support, it’s impossible to implement or manage the software. Therefore, they can’t take advantage of innovative applications or their availabilty . But the revolution you’re talking about — OSSaaS, or on-demand open source software is merging usability and cost interests. Already, companies like Appitas (www.appitas.com) allow small and mid-sized business to use great applications like SugarCRM, pay low fees, and not have to worry about hosting, backups, monitoring, support, patching or upgrades.

By: Business Two Zero

Business Two Zero — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 07:37:39 +0000

The open source model suits CRM

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 07:33:52 +0000

We definitely need to find a better acronym, but I’m convinced OSSaaS is an important approach for SME/Bs, and that ease of integration between SaaS offerings is one of the challenges the providers have to fix. We sell a Dutch, SaaS accounting solution which is staying firmly as a “best of breed”. They are staying focused on what they are good at, won’t dilute their resources to try to challenge the likes of NetSuite or 24sevenoffice, but are making sure integration with other SaaS operational applications is as easy as possible. I’ve been looking at SugarCRM, Salesforce and other options to integrate with the accounting for our customers. We plan to offer as many “off the shelf” choices as possible for our customers, with the IT headache removed. We just tied up a relationship with a UK company called OpenCRM. Their product is open source, is an offshoot from an earlier version of Sugar, and is only available as a hosted solution. You pay a modest fee for hosting, and another for support if you need it, but no licence fees. For successful CRM for the SMB, this is a particularly good model, as subscription fees or licence costs are often a barrier to letting everyone in the company have access – with hosted open source, that issue is gone. I’m sure we’ll see many more solutions like this coming on stream… but what should we call it – Hosted Open Source (HOS), Open Source as Service (OSAS)- dunno.

By: Zoli's Blog

Zoli's Blog — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 04:15:08 +0000

SaaS vs. Open Source for SMB’s – Part 2.

Yet another “Pros and cons of Open source vis a vis SaaS for an SMB” post today. I feel this one barely scratches the surface, missing basic points like the availability or (mostly) lack of IT skills at a lot of SMB’s. For reference o…

By: Zoli's Blog

Zoli's Blog — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:29:48 +0000

Open Source kills innovation (?)

Does Open Source really kill innovation? – debates Michael at SQLFusion, quoting from the Economist, Harvard, Infoworld and others. It’s worth reading – and considering that they are the company soon launching Open Source Fusion, you can gu…

By: Open Source entrepreneur

Open Source entrepreneur — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 05:44:27 +0000

Saas vs Open Source

Zoli has an interesting post on the debate of SaaS vs Open Source.

It is clear to me that both works very well together.

Take the best of both world for the best return on investment.

By: CRM Mastery E-Journal

CRM Mastery E-Journal — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:42:55 +0000

SaaS vs. Open Source for SMB’s? A No-Brainer