Re: [HACKERS] MySQL to PostgreSQL for SugarCRM

I think the point Denis is trying to make is that postgresql will get
much more exposure if SugarCRM works with
it out of the box.

Not taking away from any of these other great projects, but to get
mindshare postgresql needs to work with existing projects.

Dave
On 9-Aug-05, at 7:55 AM, Jake Stride wrote:

> Well we have a CRM package that does ERP/project
> management/ticketing/file sharing etc as well, called EGS
> http://egs.sourceforge.net. Although the sf.net page is out of date we
> are about to release 1.0 on 1st september to great fanfare! With a new
> website et al. It works out of the box on postgres although should
> work on others becuase of the DB abstraction layer. It is also being
> used by several companies around the World and is released under the
> GPL by the company I work for.
>
> If anyone is interested I can give you access to our demo/subversion
> repositry please contact me off list if you do and I can give you
> details.
>
> On 8/5/05, Denis Lussier <denis@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I'm currently most interested in getting SugarCRM working natively on
>> Postgres. Does anybody know a good CRM package that is BSD all the
>> way
>> through??  It is great that there are many CRM packages that
>> already support
>> the worlds most advanced open source database.
>>
>> I am sure that SugarCRM is wildly popular these days as an
>> "enterprise-class" open source alternative AND that it is
>> presently only
>> officially supported on MySQL.   I believe that Postgres and/or
>> EDB-Postgres
>> ought to be the database of choice for all SugarCRM customers who
>> love their
>> data.
>>
>> --Denis Lussier
>>   Chief Architect and Chairman
>>   http://ww.enterprisedb.com
>>
>>
>>  ________________________________
>>  From: Hannu Krosing [mailto:hannu@tm.ee]
>> Sent: Tue 8/2/2005 1:53 PM
>> To: Denis Lussier
>> Cc: Sergio A. Kessler; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org;
>> pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
>> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] MySQL to PostgreSQL for SugarCRM
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On L, 2005-07-30 at 22:26 -0400, Denis Lussier wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, I'll check it out.  I didn't see much evidence on the
>>> SugarCRM
>>> site that they are interested in an DB besides MySQL.  But, it is
>>> also
>>> my hope that the core SugarCRM project will come around to
>>> supporting
>>> EDB/PostgreSQL (once we have done the port for them and committed to
>>> testing and maintaining it).
>>>
>>
>> You could also check out Conflux ( http://www.conflux.ee/ ), which is
>> natively built on postgreSQL and mod_python.
>>
>> Like SugarCRM they have both free and commercial versions.
>>
>> I'm not sure how much CRM functionality the have the free (GPL)
>> version,
>> but they have also an up-to-5-user but otherwise unlimited trial
>> of full
>> version.
>>
>> --
>> Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
>>
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