Comments on: Sugar’s Open Cloud – What Does It Mean? http://developers.sugarcrm.com/wordpress/2009/05/20/sugars-open-cloud-what-does-it-mean/ Weblog for the Sugar Developer community Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:05:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Harmpie http://developers.sugarcrm.com/wordpress/2009/05/20/sugars-open-cloud-what-does-it-mean/comment-page-1/#comment-7215 Harmpie Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:51:07 +0000 http://developers.sugarcrm.com/wordpress/?p=453#comment-7215 Good post. I agree that SugarCRM's application of PHP, offers a freedom which some other 'Cloud vendors' cannot offer. Allthough I do think, that the model has a weakness. Since the open source nature allows customers to migrate to any (PHP) host and modify any piece of code at will, it can become a major risk for enterprises that step into this type of modifications. If not overthought well enough, they might end up with the same rubbish software, that SAAS (especially the closed models) try to prevent (although possibly for a different reason ;)). Instead of a vendor lock-in, they might end up with a programmer-lock-in. Good post. I agree that SugarCRM’s application of PHP, offers a freedom which some other ‘Cloud vendors’ cannot offer. Allthough I do think, that the model has a weakness.

Since the open source nature allows customers to migrate to any (PHP) host and modify any piece of code at will, it can become a major risk for enterprises that step into this type of modifications. If not overthought well enough, they might end up with the same rubbish software, that SAAS (especially the closed models) try to prevent (although possibly for a different reason ;) ). Instead of a vendor lock-in, they might end up with a programmer-lock-in.

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