SugarCRM Sales Hit landmark

December 20th, 2006: SugarCRM is grinning, announcing that it now has over 1000 paying customers since launching the first edition of its commercial open source CRM suite in September 2004.

No small number for such a short period of time, particularly for an open source solution that has also been downloaded over 1,000,000 times.

Sugar claims that the rapid adoption of its customer relationship management (CRM) is being fueled by the flexibility gained through multiple deployment options, its ability to support Windows, Linux and Apple OSX and the availability and accessibility of open source solutions such as Linux, MySQL, Apache and PHP.

"Customers want to be in control and avoid being locked-in by proprietary software vendors," said John Roberts, CEO of SugarCRM. "The move to commercial open source is happening at the operating system, database and application layers. Commercial Open Source is an idea whose time has come."

SugarCRM is also boasting that over 300 extensions and other enhancements have now been contributed by the development community. These are available on its website sugarforge.org.

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