Centric CRM Press Release

Centric CRM, developer of a leading open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, announced today that it has joined other respected open source application providers in establishing the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a new, non-profit and vendor-neutral industry organization dedicated to simplifying and expanding the operational landscape for open source business applications.

Joining Centric CRM in founding the Open Solutions Alliance are Adaptive Planning, CollabNet, EnterpriseDB, Hyperic, JasperSoft, Openbravo, SpikeSource, SourceForge and Talend. Membership in the OSA is open to any company or organization committed to removing barriers to the adoption of open source applications, and to abiding by the OSA’s code of ethics.

“Centric CRM is helping to launch the OSA because each of our members’ products are enhanced by the capabilities provided by the others,” said David Richards, chief executive officer of Centric CRM. “Working together to facilitate integration will provide great value to companies looking to open source solutions to further their business goals.”

Centric CRM and other OSA members anticipate working together to create lightweight, practical approaches to inter-application integration and areas of interoperability that simplify life for businesses, e.g., single sign-on and user authentication, simplified license management, and shared data elements such as a common customer account record. All collaboration will be conducted in the open emphasizing improvements that have practical value.

“OSA members like Centric CRM are highly recognized for the quality and performance of their applications under day-to-day, real world conditions. By working together, OSA members will give customers new and even more compelling reasons to deploy integrated open source solutions in their businesses,” said Barry Klawans, OSA spokesperson and chief technology officer at JasperSoft. “Centric CRM will bring high value to the OSA and to business users through its open source leadership role.”

Centric CRM will work with the OSA and its members to cross-market the business solutions represented in the alliance. It will also encourage its user community to leverage the applications in the alliance, and to find new uses and capabilities across platforms.

LinuxWorld OSS Discussion Panel

Tom Manos, Centric CRM chief technical officer, will participate in a discussion panel during the LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit. The 60-minute session, to be held February 15 at 10:15 AM, is a Sponsored Session on the establishment of the Open Source Alliance, moderated by Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation and current chief technical officer of CollabNet.

Centric CRM is exhibiting at the 2007 LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit, being held February 14-15 at the New York Marriott Marquis hotel. For more about Centric CRM, visit the company’s exhibit or log on to www.centriccrm.com. Additional information about the Open Source Alliance can be found at www.opensolutionsalliance.org.