div class=weblinks weblinks-item weblinks-link-10332 div class=weblinks-body pIn the last five years, there has been a strong movement up the application stack, from backend to back office to end-user. Open-source vendors have emerged, offering end-user applications in learning management systems, office suites, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, enterprise content management and business intelligence. The largest growth has occurred in the business-intelligence, customer- relationship-management and learning- management markets. For example, since its founding in 2004, Sugar CRM has grown to 5,000 customers with more than 500,000 users./p /div!--class=weblinks-body-- /div!--class=weblinks weblinks-item weblinks-link-10332--

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