SugarCRM Announces Sugar 6

SugarCRM announced the release of Sugar 6, an enterprise customer relationship management platform based on PHP. Three versions of SugarCRM are available: the fully open source and free Sugar Community Edition, Sugar Enterprise, and Sugar Professional. Community Edition contains roughly 85 percent of the onboard functionality found in Sugar Professional and Sugar Enterprise. Community Edition is released under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.

SugarCRM also released a set of open source testing tools for testing PHP deployments.

� SODA is an XML-based testing environment for Watir, a Ruby library for automating web browser alternative.

� SodaMachine runs alongside SODA and is a GUI used for creating, editing, and debugging SODA tests.

� MeterMaid is a Java application that reduces the steps necessary in writing JMeter tests for HTTP protocol.

� SugarMMM creates XML data bundles for MeterMaid load testing.

� TidBit creates massive amounts of data to do SugarCRM performance testing.

SODA and SodaMachine are available under the BSD License. MeterMaid and SugarMMM are both available under the Apache license. TidBit is available under the AGPL v3. All tools can be downloaded at http://github.com/sugarcrm. More information on Sugar 6 can be found at http://sugarcrm.com/crm/.

Source of Information : Website Magazine November 2010