Membership Supports the SugarCRM Community Development Platform of Choice
CUPERTINO, Calif., March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- SugarCRM Inc. announced today
that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation Inc., the leading open source
software development community, to support the continued development of
Eclipse's development platform. SugarCRM joins the Eclipse Foundation as an
Add-In-Provider member of the Eclipse Foundation.
Eclipse is the leading open source Integrated Development Environment
(IDE) supported by the Eclipse Foundation and open source communities
worldwide. Eclipse offers a development platform for both has large-scale
development projects and smaller open source initiatives. It supports version
control system (VCS) repository access, automatic expansion of method name,
visual diff, debugger with graphical user interface and plug-ins. The Eclipse
IDE is the development platform of choice within the SugarCRM community.
SugarCRM's decision to join the Eclipse Foundation is in recognition of
the breadth and depth the Eclipse development environment offers to improve
open source collaboration worldwide.
"We are pleased to welcome SugarCRM into the Eclipse Foundation.
SugarCRM's strong community and knowledge of open source development will
provide valuable support for the Eclipse platform," said Mike Milinkovich,
Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
"SugarCRM is delighted to be an Add-In Provider member of the Eclipse
Foundation, as we will help collaboration efforts between both Eclipse and
SugarCRM's open source communities," states John Roberts, co-founder, chairman
and CEO of SugarCRM.
About the Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on
providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for
building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span
the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, language
development environments for Java, C/C++, PHP and others, testing and
performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded
development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors,
innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals
extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform.
The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation
that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse
Foundation are available at http://www.eclipse.org .
About SugarCRM
SugarCRM is the world's leading provider of commercial open source
customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes.
SugarCRM's Sugar Suite easily adapts to any business environment by offering a
more flexible, cost-effective alternative than proprietary applications.
SugarCRM's open source architecture allows companies to more easily customize
and integrate customer-facing business processes in order to build and
maintain more profitable relationships. SugarCRM offers several deployment
options, including on-demand, on-premise and appliance-based solutions to suit
customers' security, integration and configuration needs. For more
information, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 87 SUGARCRM toll free in the US, email
contact@sugarcrm.com or visit http://www.sugarcrm.com .
SOURCE SugarCRM Inc.
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Related links:
http://www.eclipse.org
http://www.sugarcrm.com
CONTACT:
Caroline Rubenstein of S&S Public Relations,
Inc. for SugarCRM Inc., +1-847-415-9344, crubenstein@sspr.com
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