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11/20 Microsoft Azure Walks a Thin Blue Line

Larry Augustin, CEO of Sugar CRM, has chosen to offer customers the ability to host Sugar CRM on Azure, and says the platform was easy to build on, even though SugarCRM is built using PHP. In his vision, customers will be able to choose which clouds their software as a service are hosted on, so an enterprise can choose the applications and the clouds those run on. This is the polar opposite of the vision espoused by SugarCRM’s biggest rival, Salesforce.com, which hosts its software on its own cloud.

11/19 SugarCRM`s Windows Azure Move Plays to VARs

SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin, who has been successful in launching several businesses based on open source technology, said he is "excited" to see that Microsoft continues to recognize the value of open source software. "They recognize there is value in the open source position. One thing Microsoft has done very well is support developers. And they recognize there are a lot of open source developers out there."

11/19 Good vibes for Microsoft's "point-and-click cloud computing for the masses"

The product is Microsoft's free Web Platform Installer, now on version 2.0, which lets developers quickly install Microsoft's Internet Information Services and a boatload of free Web applications on top of IIS, including WordPress, Moodle, SugarCRM, and Acquia for Drupal. The fact that this Microsoft product is playing nice with open source software is remarkable in itself, but what has gotten developers particularly interested is the cloud potential.

11/18 Microsoft PDC 09: How Partners Are Creating Cloud Applications

I also talked to Larry Augustin, CEO of Sugar CRM, which has ported its commercial open source CRM package to run on the Azure platform. He told me that he was pleased at how Azure now supported open source frameworks such as PHP, the Zen framework, and MySQL. Sugar CRM plans to come out with an Azure version early next year (depending on Microsoft making the billing and other features available); and he said it was a relatively easy port to make it work using the SQL Azure services.

11/17 Windows Azure Opens Up to SugarCRM

SugarCRM is the latest open source application provider to jump into Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud. SugarCRM’s move reinforce’s Microsoft’s commitment to make Azure a widely supported cloud — including both open and closed source application partners. Here are the implications for VARs and solutions providers. As The VAR Guy previously reported, Microsoft is quietly working with SugarCRM, MySQL and other open source partners on a range of projects.

11/17 SugarCRM Announces CRM Applications on Windows Azure

"With Windows Azure, Microsoft has built a true cloud computing platform going well beyond the simple hosted infrastructure that most service providers offer today," said Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM. "Windows Azure enables SugarCRM value-added resellers to create and deploy unique solutions for customers around the globe. This new service is another key component of the Sugar Open Cloud, the SugarCRM cloud strategy for delivering simple, affordable CRM anywhere based on customer need."