SugarCRM CEO John Roberts Joins Panel at InfoWorld’s Open Source Business Conference
March 17, 2009 by CRM Helpdesk Software · Leave a Comment
Joined by Executives From Sun/MySQL, Novell, Mozilla-Firefox and North Bridge Venture Partners, SugarCRM to Discuss the Impact of Open Source on Today’s Economy
CUPERTINO, Calif.–SugarCRM today announced that John Roberts, co-founder and CEO, will participate in the “North Bridge Venture Partners Keynote Panel,” at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) on Tuesday, March 24 at 9:30 a.m. at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
Joined by executives from Sun/MySQL, Novell, Mozilla-Firefox and North Bridge Venture Partners, the discussion will focus on the current state of economic and global affairs and what this means for open source technologies. The executives will also share insight on the results of the OSBC-North Bridge Venture Partners “Future of Open Source” survey.
The other panelists who will participate in the discussion include: Michael Skok, general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners; Marten Mickos, senior vice president of the Database Group at Sun/MySQL; Dries Buytaert, both founder of Drupal.org and co-founder and CTO of Acquia; Ron Hovsepian, CEO of Novell; and John Lilly, chief executive officer of Mozilla-Firefox.
OSBC, owned and produced by InfoWorld, is the industry’s forum for senior business leaders, C-level technical strategists, lawyers and venture capitalists to collaborate on emerging business models, strategies and profitability through open source. This year’s OSBC conference will focus on the biggest issue in open source today—open sourcing the enterprise. Over the course of two days, keynotes from Novell, North Bridge Venture Partners, Red Hat, Linux Foundation, Microsoft North America and Sun Microsystems, will preview the future of open source by revealing how it is already being used by the industry’s top enterprises and vendors to push the envelope on innovation while coming in under budget.
For more information about OSBC 2009, visit: http://www.infoworld.com/event/osbc/09/index.html
About SugarCRM
SugarCRM is the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software. Founded as an open source project in 2004, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded over five million times and currently serve over 500,000 users in 75 languages. Over 4,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM’s On-Site and Cloud Computing services over lock-in based, proprietary alternatives. In the last year, SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise.
For more information, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 87 SUGARCRM tollfree in the US, email contact@sugarcrm.com, or visit http://www.sugarcrm.com.
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