Concursive, until October 2007 named Centric CRM, is a software company located in Norfolk, Virginia, that offers the ConcourseSuite product, a customer relationship management application, and ConcourseConnect, a social software application, both based on Java/J2EE.
It competes with major CRM vendors such as Salesforce.com, RightNow Technologies and Oracle’s Siebel.
[1] In June 2007, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) president, Michael Tiemann announced plans to crack down on software vendors that claim to be open source without using an OSI-approved license.
Although Concursive described their CRM product as "open source", as of July 2007 it was not certified as such by the OSI.
[4] In October 2007 the company released a new version of their CRM product with improved support for third party developers including a JSR 168 plug-in architecture.