SugarCRM Announces 1,000 Customers and 1,000,000 Open Source Downloads as Momentum for Open Source Applications Grows

CUPERTINO, Calif., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ — SugarCRM Inc. announced today that it has reached more than 1,000 paying customers since the first edition of its commercial open source customer relationship (CRM) software was released in September 2004. In addition, Sugar Open Source has been downloaded over 1,000,000 times, establishing a worldwide community of users who strengthen the product through contributions, quality improvements, extensions and language translations.