Martin covers the CRM marketplace for The 451 Group, specializing in areas such as sales force automation, customer service and support software, and marketing automation. His coverage area also includes the enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and workforce management industries, as well as optimization technology and partner relationship management. In addition, Martin often contributes to 451 GARS reports, which investigate user experiences and vendor strategies associated with grid computing.

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Recent posts by Martin Schneider:

• January 31, 2007: Digium names new CEO to guide growth
  Digium, which sells open source telephony products based on Asterisk, has named a new CEO (press release). Danny Windham, former ...
• August 9, 2006: Digium gets VC infusion for Asterisk
  Digium, which is the main commercial entity behind the Asterisk open source telephony platform, and brainchild of Mark Spencer, just ...
• July 20, 2006: Compiere makes another strategic move w/ board addition
  Compiere has just added Larry Augustin to its Board of Directors.  Augustin is an old school open source brain, and ...
• July 11, 2006: Compiere’s partner network, and geographic reach, keeps growing
  Open source ERP/CRM vendor Compiere has added a dozen new partners. The new partners include Avanted, Cobweb, Dassou, DATALP, HyperData, ...
• June 27, 2006: Can we be too Jaded about Microsoft when it comes to open source?
  Matt Asay and Dave Rosenberg's InfoWorld blog entry regarding Microsoft's shared source initiative made me think a bit.What really got ...
• May 23, 2006: Compiere hires new chairman and business dev officer
  So, following on the heels of LaVonne Reimer leaving as CEO of Compiere, the company just announced at its partner ...
• May 17, 2006: SAP’s SDN has all the benefits of open source communities
  I was just talking to Shai Agassi at SAP and he gave me a pretty interesting factoid: The SAP Developer ...
• May 10, 2006: Chordiant Mesh: the perfect example of what Apps should be open source?
  Chordiant has just released its collaboration product called Mesh (press release), which it says utilizes an open source development style ...
• April 27, 2006: Speaking too soon on Compiere…
  Of course, right after posting about Compiere's new corporate infrastructure and potential plans, we learned that CEO LaVonne Reimer has ...
• April 25, 2006: Aspect turns its eye on the open source call center
  Call center software vendor Aspect Software says it will provide and support the Digium open source internet protocol (IP) PBX, ...
• April 21, 2006: How corporate is too corporate for Compiere?
  I've been watching Compiere a little more closely lately with a bit of wonder. The company has made some serious ...
• April 4, 2006: ASPs have it both ways
  After an interesting talk with RightNow's Greg Gianforte, I realized just how good hosted app vendors can have it. Greg ...

Recent comments by Martin Schneider:

• May 18, 2006: AJAX and Java frameworks
  Not open source either, but SAP has just done some more rich client stuff,...