So, Google have announced today, that they are to phase out support for IE 6, no big suprise there, given the conflict with Google and China (that's the country, it's not a new search product thst you have missed, before you jump off your seat to see how this new search engine works), and of course quite justified, but the real news for companies like ours is much better.

As a web application development company (hosted CRM Software), with the major part of our application development being contained in the browser, having to cater for older browsers is a real drain, on developer motivation

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Here at OpenCRM we migrate dozens of customers from competitive products, it's one of the things that we do really well, sometimes the migration is due to cost, often it's because our customer wants a more flexible technical solution or a stronger relationship with their provider, that's us.

Whatever the reasons we have become very good at managing these moves, some sites are small and just require some data manipulation skills and then they are ready to go, others need a full system analysis to achieve their goals.

This article, published independently, gives in my opinion some solid 'no

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I thought this Huff Post article was interesting.

The recent hack of the website RockYou exposed around 32 million user passwords, which data security firm Imperva has analyzed to create a list of the worst passwords.

Want to know what terms to avoid?

Here are the top ten most commonly used passwords (see the full list of the top 20 in the charts below):

1. 123456

2. 12345

3. 123456789

4. Password

5. iloveyou

6. princess

7. rockyou

8. 1234567

9. 12345678

10. abc123

An attack that exposed 10,000 Hotmail, MSN and Live.com passwords yielded similar findings.

According to a

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One of our company New Years resolutions (yes we really do have them), is to send out a customer satisfaction survey. This is a first for us (in a structured way).

We are keen to see how well we do in the mid ground of our customer base, which accounts for a good number of our customers. We will always be acutely aware of the small number of projects that are hard work to keep on track, as well as the ones where we excel, in both cases customers are very vocal and (because of the project management escalation and communication around these projects), the implementions are very visible, so

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I have just come off the phone from a potential client and he passed on a comment, made to him by a competitor (well not really, but it makes them feel good), which made me smile.

"What you going for a hosted solution, OH, you know they don't work like everyone thinks they do, you need to have a cloud account with Amazon before you can use them, and you need an account for each user".....

Now I know that this could just be a 'newbie salesperson' who doesn't know his A from his elbow, it sure sounds like that, but are there really people out there, that don't A) understand what SaaS is all

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