SalesAgility, the driving force behind SuiteCRM, joins Open Source Initiative as Corporate Sponsor.

Commitment to openness, freedom and collaboration in open source demands a different corporate mindset, a different set of values and a different set of behaviors.

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Feb. 26, 2018 – The Open Source Initiative® (OSI), the global non-profit dedicated to promoting and protecting open source software, announced today the Premium Sponsorship of SalesAgility, the authors and maintainers of SuiteCRM. Began in 2013 as a fork of SugarCRM’s Community Edition, SuiteCRM is a completely open source CRM solution delivering all the functionality expected of an enterprise-class CRM application. SuiteCRM is now generally acknowledged to be the world’s leading open source CRM solution.

SalesAgility, as an employee-owned and community driven consultancy, is deeply committed to open source, believing the culture of co-creation inherent to open source best serves the long term interests of clients and is the future of business applications. With its community focus, the company has embraced and celebrates the principles of open exchange, collaborative participation, open standards, rapid prototyping, transparency, meritocracy, and community: the same values the OSI promotes among communities of practice to drive genuine open source development.

“We’re so very pleased to have SalesAgility’s support, especially now, as the OSI enters it’s 20th year,” said Patrick Masson, General Manager of the OSI. “We’re thrilled to see the success of open source and the success of companies like SalesAgility who are authentically engaged in the open source community. This is where our work over the next decade must now focus, learning from that success to help companies understand best practices so more may realize the benefits of community-driven development. SalesAgility is one of these that we can reference and which can serve as a mentor to others.”

“We are excited to be members of the Open Source Initiative”, said Greg Soper, founder of SalesAgility. “The work the OSI has done over the last 20 years is extraordinary, and we are looking forward to collaborate together to ensure the success of open source in all fields.”

The OSI has been crystallizing consensus around open source licensing, benefits of participation, and community norms for the last 20 years, and will remain committed to that work. Yet as successes have increased, in both the adoption of open source software and the communities that enable it, the OSI’s work will evolve. Many agree, “Open Source has won,” and an organization dedicated to simply promoting adoption and advocating for collaboration is no longer enough. Although the OSI will continue to take on this work when needed, the organization has identified additional goals for itself, specifically in helping organizations align with established norms, best practices, and the open ethos that has led to Open Source Software’s tremendous growth. Through the support of companies like SalesAgility, who are actively engaged in open source development, the OSI not only receives critical resources for continued operations, but importantly, real-life references that can help inform open source communities of practice, and even mentor organizations just entering the open source ecosystem.

About SalesAgility
SalesAgility is the driving force behind SuiteCRM, the world’s most popular open source CRM. SuiteCRM is a fully featured CRM, that can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud, allowing organisations and enterprises to be in full control over their own customer data. With a community over 88,000 people, a download count of over 800,000 and an estimated user count of over 4 million users, SuiteCRM is world’s most popular open source CRM.

Powered by a highly skilled team, SalesAgility provides SuiteCRM services that include support, consultancy, custom development, migrations, and training, as well as SuiteASSURED: a fully supported, discrete build of SuiteCRM, created to provide total care for enterprise-class customers and other large organisations. For more information, visit https://suitecrm.com or follow @SuiteCRM on Twitter.

About The Open Source Initiative
Founded in 1998, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) protects and promotes open source software, development and communities, championing software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, stewarding the Open Source Definition, and preventing abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement. The OSI is a California public benefit corporation, with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. For more information about the OSI, see https://opensource.org.

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