CRMSugar, an open source CRM Application vendor has secured 2 rounds of funding and also seems to have got a good number of customers.After just nine months, Roberts (founder)is talking boldly of competing with mammoth proprietary incumbents Siebel Systems and Salesforce.com. Roberts is charging $239 per user per year, and is offering customers a perpetual license. If they don’t renew an annual subscription, they don’t get new updates or support.

Here’s a dog which can figure out the optimal path when a person throws a ball and asks it to get it. It has a business card too which says ““Elvis Bogart Wales, Doctoris Caninarum.” www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=28478&ntpid=1

Almost the entire last week, I spent on reading up on Goldratt books which I read them a few years ago. I was sure that my understanding of the concepts would be much better this time. The books that I read were “ Critical Chain”, “ Its not Luck”, “Race”. Each of them presents the fallacies in the current management techniques, be it production scheduling, decision making, Project management. When I read that the much cherished and holy concept of Net present value is fundamentally wrong because it does not take in to consideration that the availability of money is always a constraint, I was rather curious to read Throughput accounting , a book which talks about how we can account for in a much better way

I was eagerly waiting for the next book from Malcolm Gladwell, the author of best seller “The tipping point”. After his first book which contained ideas about Viral Marketing that were lucidly portrayed, there was a great buzz in the industry and marketing circles about his next book – Blink. I got a chance to read the book when one of my friends presented to me as a gift. Actually I never expected it to read so early after it’s publishing, as it would ideally long time for some of the books to get to the Indian Book stores.

An innovative project has been kicked off to stop spam. The solution attacks the spammer before even he/she tries to start to send junk mails ! The way it works is: The website owner installs a Honey pot page with under his sub domain which cannot be surfed by a regular user but is crawled by spiders and robots. When a crawler visits one of those pages, the page will generate a unique e-mail address that contains information about the time it was harvested and the IP address, or identity, of the computer that harvested it.