Microsoft sweetens license with SugarCRM

SugarCRM, known for its eponymous 3.0 software, is the first commercial open-source company to take a Microsoft shared-source license. That might not endear them to anyone in LinuxLand, but it'll help them move up the food chain in WindowsWorld. (What's your opinion? Email me.) Licensees get code for things like directory building, installation tools and, perhaps most valuable of all, access to the people who make the OS.

For more on the deal:
- see this IDG News article

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