Open and free (until March, anyway)

Now this is the type of announcement always worth waiting for. WBP Systems has announced that its AJAX-based CRM known as “Heap” will be offered absolutely free until March 2007.

The plug looks something like this: “Heap doesn’t keep to itself, [and] it communicates the way a good application should. Every piece of data can be exported out of Heap. Every message can be subscribed to by RSS. And every calendar can be accessed with the iCal format. No data is ever trapped, you are automatically informed of changes and your calendar in iCal, Thunderbird or Outlook is automatically updated."

Features touted in Heap are the dashboard; calendar with shared calendars; messaging; lead management programs and archives; easy reportage; searches; and user management solutions. For screenshots and further information, click here.