SugarCRM Announces Keynotes and Sponsors for SugarCon

You are invited to attend SugarCon 2008, SugarCRM’s annual customer and developer conference. The conference will be held February 6-8 at the historic Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose, CA.

Don't miss the outstanding line-up of keynote speakers and breakout sessions that will help you succeed in 2008.

SugarCon offers in-depth sessions on CRM strategy, implementation and adoption. Whether you are a SugarCRM customer, partner, administrator or developer, SugarCon is the event to build your SugarCRM skills and network.

In addition to the program, there will lots of fun extracurricular activities with food, drink and music!

Space is limited so please register as soon as possible.

We hope you can join us!

Sugar Developer Newswire

SugarCRM Inc. announces the general availability of Sugar 5.0. Sugar 5.0 introduces a broad range of new functionality, including capabilities that allow users to build custom modules, a new AJAX email client and a state-of-the-art 'Multi-Instance On-Demand' architecture. Downlaod Sugar Community Edition 5.0a here.
PHP 5.1 - Please Specify Your Preference
Manoj from Product Management posted a forum post asking for your input on a fairly major decision we’re mulling over here in SugarLand. We are considering making PHP 5.1 the minimum supported platform for Sugar, starting with Sugar 5.1. This would mean that all customers and community members running Sugar 5.1 or higher would have to move to PHP 5.1 or greater. Please weigh in on this discussion. We're planning on making the final decision in just a few days. Thank you in advance for your opinions!
Upcoming Administrator Class dates: Sugar Admin Fundamentals 2/11-2/12 in San Jose, CA
This comprehensive two-day instructor-led course includes a combination of lecture and hands-on exercises, where you will learn and apply the key competencies needed to set up, configure, maintain, and customize Sugar. A Certificate of Completion will be provided upon successful course completion.
Sugar Open Source 4.5.1i patch is now available. Download it here.
We reached our 4 millionth download at Sugarforge.org this month!

Developer Website

We have been working hard to enhance our developer website and have added several new tutorials for the new 5.0 release. Check out this page for tutorials on Field Level Security, Business Logic Hooks, Module Builder, Studio, and a variety of other topics. Customers and partners can log in (via the upper left corner of the page) to see additional Pro- and Enterprise-level content. We’re continuing to enhance the site so check back often for new tips and tricks!

Podcast Series on iTunes

Sugar Podcasts are back after a brief holiday break. Currently, we have 40 podcasts posted to date on a variety of topics. These two to three minute audio podcasts are called "60 Second Sugar Snippets" and are available on iTunes and on our website.

Recent topics have included:

SuperTimeSheet is January's Project of the Month

This month we feature an interview with Farkhad Rakhimzhanov, and the SuperTimeSheet Project.

The SuperTimeSheet project allows your colleagues to track hours against Cases, Projects and Project Tasks.

In case you missed last month's interview with Fred Dixon of KlipFolio Dashboard for SugarCRM. Check it out here.

For more information, please visit the project of the month page.

- The SugarForge Team

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