{"id":66,"date":"2010-11-27T12:29:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T10:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oss.org.mt\/?p=193"},"modified":"2010-11-27T12:29:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T10:29:06","slug":"%e2%80%98europe-is-more-interested-in-open-source%e2%80%99-qa-with-larry-augustin-sugarcrm-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Europe is more interested in open source\u2019: Q&#038;A with Larry Augustin, SugarCRM CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reproduced from <a href=\"http:\/\/enterpriseapplications.cbronline.com\/news\/europe-is-more-interested-in-open-source-qa-with-larry-augustin-sugarcrm-ceo-251110\" ><strong>CBR Home<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CBR talks to the boss of open source CRM vendor SugarCRM about cloud,  competitors and why Europe is a better market for that business model<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s start with an overview of SugarCRM.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe  company was founded in 2004 with a team of three people, all with lots  of CRM experience. They saw an opportunity to do CRM in a different way &#8211;  with open source and we&#8217;re now the leading open source CRM software  company. We have over 700,000 end users, including pay and free users.  My understanding is that salesforce.com has around two million, which I  think puts a bit of perspective on it, especially for a company that is  relatively young compared to the likes of salesforce.com and Siebel.<\/p>\n<p>In  terms of commercial growth we&#8217;ve done very well as well. In Q3 we grew  57% over the same quarter last year. We&#8217;ve been growing north of 50% for  four quarters now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you profitable?<\/strong><br \/>\nWe&#8217;re  private so we don&#8217;t disclose the absolute numbers. We&#8217;re very close to  being profitable, we&#8217;ve been cash flow positive for the last two months  and expect that to continue. We&#8217;ve raised just over $46m in VC. We have  over 6,000 paying customers. We&#8217;re very strong in Europe, and I think  Europe aligns very well to us as a business. In the last six months we  have grown from three people in Europe to almost 20.<\/p>\n<p>Read more and the full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/enterpriseapplications.cbronline.com\/news\/europe-is-more-interested-in-open-source-qa-with-larry-augustin-sugarcrm-ceo-251110\" ><strong>CBR Home<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBR talks to the boss of open source CRM vendor SugarCRM about cloud, competitors and why Europe is a better market for that business model <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=66\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,14,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-companies","category-news","category-oss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jmWQ-14","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}