Great Forks in History: SugarCRM/SuiteCRM

1 · Alan Storm · Sept. 17, 2021, 2:20 p.m.
The closest parallel to the current “Magento 2 might fork” situation I can think of is the SugarCRM/SuiteCRM split. SugarCRM started life as an open source, self-installed PHP based customer relationship management system. It was one of the many PHP systems that was easy to bucket under the “C.R.U.D. line-of-business application” category. The needs of the company that controlled the open source project (also named SugarCRM) started to drift away from the needs of the open source community that ...