@gnufree
If you are really worried about Microsoft suing you, then I suggest you delete ALL the software you have installed, turn off your computer and never turn it on again. Microsoft owns so many patents that I'm sure that you are violating at least one of them right now. Do you think your are safe with vTiger? Microsoft is currently suing Salesforce.com over patent violations and I'm sure that they will do the same of vTiger once the hit the $1B sales mark.
The reality is that companies like SplendidCRM Software that develop using Microsoft technologies have nothing to fear from Microsoft. As a Microsoft Certified Partner, we get several calls from support personnel at Microsoft to make sure that we have everything we need to produce great applications. SugarCRM is also very cozy with Microsoft and partners with them where ever possible. The interesting thing is that SugarCRM seems to have the same UI elements that Microsoft is suing Salesforce.com over.
The bottom line is that the use of C# and the ASP.NET technologies allows us to produce a nearly identical product to SugarCRM or vTiger with one-tenth the developers that it takes to do in PHP. Not only that, we get to do it all with a single framework, where as the PHP community must patch together over 20 libraries. Have you seen the list of libraries on the SugarCRM About page? The list is huge: XTemplate, NuSOAP, JS Calendar, PHP PDB, PNG Behavior, JSON, HTTP WebDAV, O Lait, PclZip, Overlibmws, Yahoo!, PHPMailer, HTML Safe, XML Sax3, JSMin, SWFObject, TCPDF, reCAPTCHA. By contrast, SplendidCRM has just a few Microsoft provides just about everything we need in an integrated and well-tested platform.
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