OSCON 2010 – CMO Nick Halsey to Participate in Interoperability Panel Discussion; Software Engineer John Mertic to Present on How to Develop Easily Deployable PHP Applications

CUPERTINO, Calif.–SugarCRM, the leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced that SugarCRM Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development Nick Halsey will participate in a panel discussion sponsored by Microsoft at the O’Reilly OSCON Open Source Convention in Portland, Ore. Also planned is a session by SugarCRM Software Engineer John Mertic.

Session Details:

Customer Driven, Vendor Supported Interoperability

Topic: Interoperability impacts businesses, institutions and government agencies the world over. This session will focus on the value and benefits of customer driven, vendor supported interoperability. A series of short presentations will be followed by an interactive panel discussion to address the direction of interoperability in the changing IT landscape.

Participants: Andrew Aitken (Olliance Group), Fabio Da Cunha (Microsoft), Frank Rego (Novell), Nick Halsey (SugarCRM), Jay Lyman (The 451 Group)

Date and time: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 4:30 p.m. PT

Location: E143/E144, Oregon Convention Center, Portland

Developing Easily Deployable PHP Applications

Topic: Here’s the scenario: you’ve written a PHP application that is designed to run on Linux, Apache and MySQL. Now you have a customer that wants to run it on Windows. Or using Oracle. Or they like Memcached instead of APC. How do you do it, without sacrificing performance, stability, simplicity and your own sanity? This session will explore how SugarCRM approached this problem and what lessons were learned in the process.

Participants: John Mertic

Date and time: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 5:20 p.m. PT

Location: Portland 251, Oregon Convention Center, Portland

OSCON is the premier gathering place for the Open Source community where the contributors come together to not only display their work in this field, but also to learn from each other. For more information about OSCON 2010, visit: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010.

About SugarCRM

SugarCRM makes CRM Simple. As the world’s leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded more than seven million times and currently serve over 600,000 end users in 80 languages. Over 6,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM’s On-Site and Cloud Computing services over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise.