I have heard of people rejecting Sugar for their existing CRM/ERP product based on VS Foxpro. I'm not a huge fan of Foxpro myself, but if the system already exist then a lot of people see little advantage in changing.<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul</b> <<a href="mailto:ast2005@9ux.com">ast2005@9ux.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Joe acquisto wrote:<br><br>>Paul <<a href="mailto:ast2005@9ux.com">ast2005@9ux.com</a>> Wrote: 4/30/2007 8:53 AM:<br>><br>><br>>>Joe acquisto wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>>>I have dual posted this to the user and biz lists.
<br>>>><br>>>>Has anyone ever heard of someone running an Asterisk based system, yet<br>>>>Has abandoning SugarCRM, and opting to develop their own Visual FoxPro<br>>>>Has database/CRM?
<br>>>><br>>>>Please don't dump on me now, this is not my idea, I am just asking for<br>>>>Please comments, to see if my own initial thoughts are reasonably accurate.<br>>>><br>>>>
<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>><br>>>I'll answer it on the user list. I don't think the idea is developed<br>>>enough to discuss on biz.<br>>><br>>>First - vtiger is available for those who don't like the SugarCRM
<br>>>licensing.<br>>><br>>><br>><br>>It's not a licensing complaint. At least that has not surfaced. It is more that the<br>>programmer does not seem to be comfortable with SugarCRM, MySQL and php.
<br>>Biggest compliant about sugar is - hard to configure, does not work with latest<br>>php.<br>><br>><br>><br>>>Second - developing your own CRM is an ambitious undertaking. You need<br>>>good reasons to go in that direction.
<br>>><br>>>Third - I have enough exposure to Visual FoxPro to quickly rule it out<br>>>as a choice for anything new. The fact that somebody is proposing to<br>>>use it might give you the idea that they don't know what they are
<br>>>talking about at all. BTW - my exposure to it did include things like<br>>>access from linux apps using ODBC so I know enough to hate the product.<br>>><br>>><br>It still makes me wonder why the programmer chooses Visual Foxpro.
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