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SugarCRM’s CEO Quits; Augustin Becomes Interim CEO

The founding CEO John Roberts resigned the post and his board seat to chase other opportunities
By Maureen O'Gara
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May 11, 2009 09:15 AM EDT
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Larry Augustin, who hasn't had a honest job since VA Linux hit the wall and he took his IPO winnings and turned venture capitalist, is now interim CEO of SugarCRM, the commercial open source CRM ISV.

The founding CEO John Roberts resigned the post and his board seat to chase other opportunities, the company said Thursday, destination unknown.

Augustin has been on the board for the last four years and is supposed to fill in while they do a search for a new CEO.

Augustin, however, sounds more like he's settling in. On his blog he writes that "My goals for the next 30 days at SugarCRM are fairly simple: get to know the team, customers and partners. I am looking forward to helping them to continue to execute and take the company to the next level."

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splendidcrm 05/10/09 12:31:57 AM EDT

SugarCRM’s CEO, John Robert’s exit is probably a good thing. When we started SplendidCRM, we thought that the folks at SugarCRM would be open to suggestions. Our path has always been to cater to the developers that only want a Microsoft-based solution, so we really did not see SplendidCRM as competition to SugarCRM, but more as a complement to SugarCRM. Apparently, John Roberts did not see it the same way. Instead of embracing the whole open-source mantra, he threatened us with a lawsuit. Such threats are empty because the whole point of open-source is to encourage others to build upon the platform; in fact, the accompanying license specifically encourages this.