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On a gut level, Lion evokes some of the same feelings my original Macintosh did back in 1984. The first Bondi blue iMac struck me this way as did the first iPod, iPhone and iPad. A guest blog by Bob Snow
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With all the deafening buzz about the recent release of the iPad and Cupertino putting its boot down on cross-compilers for mobile apps, one had to strain a bit to hear the real story in Apple Q2 announcements: Despite the increasing competition from major vendors and the gloomy outlooks from analysts, the Macintosh is gaining strength in many market segments and so is the iPhone.
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Ever wonder why this has been the gadget decade? How Apple was able to supply the whole market with its iPod and iPhone while it couldn't supply even one-tenth of it with the Macintosh 20 years ago?The answer is right here.
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Updated: April 8, 2010, 11:05 PM ETAssociated Press
PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby appeared to reach the 50-goal mark for the first time in his five-season career, only to have a goal taken away by video review long after the Penguins' 7-3 victory over the New York Islanders ended Thursday night.
Crosby scored his 49th goal in the final minute of the second period, making it 4-2. He appeared to reach the 50-goal mark on a slap shot from the right point on a power play at 14:34 of the second, but it was changed following ...
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FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas — Bret Bielema has suffered through his darkest days as a head coach during his three seasons at Arkansas, including a 3-9 record in the post-Bobby Petrino disaster of 2013.
The Razorbacks coach might have reached a new low following a 35-24 defeat to former Southwest Conference rival Texas Tech on Saturday.
The loss was the second straight for Arkansas (1-2), coming on the heels of a stunning 16-12 defeat to Toledo last week, and it sent the Razorbacks to 0-9 under Bielema in games decided by fewer than 10 points.
After ending last season with three wins in its final four games and opening this season ranked and loaded with expectations, Arkansas is left once again searching for answers to its now four-year run of misery.
"I wish I could say something to make everybody feel better — our fans, our players," Bielema said. "We're just not at the point yet where we can not play a perfect game and win."
Alex Collins had 170 yards rushing on 28 carries to lead Arkansas, which had 424 yards of total offense. And quarterback Brandon Allen was 16-of-21 passing for 196 yards, but the Razorbacks were unable to rebound from last weeks' crushing loss to Toledo.
The Red Raiders, meanwhile, had a point to prove a year following a 49-28 drubbing last season at the hands of the power-based Razorbacks last season.
And it was Texas Tech (3-0) coach Kliff Kingsbury, long a proponent of the spread offense, who had the biggest point to make — stemming from a summer convention of Texas high school coaches at which he said Bielema disparaged his preferred up-tempo approach.
"(Bielema) stood up and said if you don't throw to the fullback, we'll kick your (butt), and if you throw it 70 times a game, we'll kick you (butt)," Kingsbury said. "(Bielema) just got his (butt) kicked twice in a row and probably next week by (Texas) A&M as well.
"That did feel good."
Texas Tech averaged 8.4 yards per play on Saturday, doing so with a spread offense that decimated a Razorbacks defense that finished 10th in the nation a year ago. And it did so led by a quarterback who watched from the sidelines a year ago during Arkansas' win in Lubbock.
Patrick Mahomes took over as Texas Tech's starter during the second half of last season, and he accounted for three touchdowns in Saturday's win — which improved the Red Raiders to 9-1 in nonconference play under Kingsbury.
Mahomes finished 26-of-30 passing for 243 yards and a score, and he also rushed for 58 yards and a pair of touchdowns — leading a Texas Tech offense that finished with 486 total yards. Reginald Davis caught a pair of touchdowns, finishing with five catches for 115 yards.
"We knew what we could do, and we practiced it all through the summer, through fall camp," Davis said. "... (Mahomes) was great; he's been great every game so far for us."
Texas Tech, meanwhile, never punted while scoring touchdowns on five of its nine possessions. Its only four non-scoring drives ended with a pair of interceptions thrown by Mahomes, a missed 22-yard field goal and the game-ending series of kneel downs.
Arkansas rushed 68 times for 438 yards in a dominating 49-28 win at Texas Tech a year ago, but the Razorbacks entered Saturday struggling to establish their once-dominant running attack — particularly in a shocking 16-12 loss to Toledo a week ago.
Led by Collins, Arkansas once again had its way with the Red Raiders 120th-ranked rushing defense in the first half. Collins had 92 of the Razorbacks 130 yards rushing in the half, helping a short-handed Arkansas offense hold the ball for 22:35 compared to just 7:25 for Texas Tech.
The Razorbacks entered the game without injured wide receiver Keon Hatcher and Cody Hollister with foot injuries, and they lost another starter in the first quarter when Jared Cornelius appeared to break his left arm during a 34-yard catch and run.
Despite the attrition, Allen threw a pair of touchdowns in the half — including a 24-yard strike to Drew Morgan late in the half to tie the game at 21-all.
Texas Tech, meanwhile, made the most of its limited possession.
The Red Raiders gained nearly 10 yards per play in the half — 243 on 25 plays — including a 72-yard touchdown pass from wide receiver Jakeem Grant to Davis to go up 21-14 in the second quarter.
It was precisely the outcome Kingsbury had hoped and waited for following the outspoken Bielema's summer comments.
"To walk in there and say those (things), it definitely rubbed me the wrong way," Kingsbury said. "He's a prideful guy, and he says what's on his mind, but it just hasn't worked out for him."
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Clarion Hotel & Aqua Lagoon Waterpark
Hotel Guest Rating: 5.1/10
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West Springfield, MA 01089
Welcome to the Clarion Hotel & Aqua Lagoon Waterpark
Priceline guests enjoy a free continental breakfast, two on-site restaurants and a hot tub with a solarium at the Clarion Hotel & Aqua Lagoon Waterpark.
Hotel Features
The hotel has 262 rooms on four floors, and non-smoking rooms are available. Each room includes a work desk, a coffeemaker and a flat-screen cable TV, and select rooms feature balconies, whirlpool bathtubs, microwaves and mini-fridges. Choose from two different on-site restaurants, and relax in the hot tub under a solarium. There is also a game room with a pool table.
Hotel Location
The hotel is off I-91, within a mile of shops, restaurants and entertainment. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is four miles away, as is the Dr. Seuss National Memorial. Six Flags New England is nine miles from the hotel, and Bradley International Airport is 22 miles away.
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Priceline guests rave about the "very attractive" Clarion Hotel & Aqua Lagoon Waterpark and its "friendly staff" and "excellent complimentary breakfast."
Clarion Hotel & Aqua Lagoon Waterpark Amenities
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Guests must be at least 21 years old to check-in.Please note that admission to Aqua Lagoon Waterpark is not calculated automatically in the total cost and will have to be paid for separately during your stay. Please contact the hotel directly for further details.Please note, a microwave and refrigerator are included in poolside rooms and are available in all other rooms upon request. Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana versus Kentucky, one of college basketball's best rivalries, is over.
Barring a change of heart between now and this summer, Indiana officials said Thursday that they will not renew the contract to play Kentucky because of a disagreement over where to hold the games. The schools have met during the regular season every year since 1969, with all but one of those games played in December.


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In January of 2013, Teleport City had a pretty notable server meltdown and database corruption, which naturally, occurred while I was on vacation and with spotty internet connection. Thus began a big move from hosting the site on my own server and dealing with all the backend hassle that entails, to moving it to a hosting service (wordpress.com). All has been pretty awesome as a result, but one of the things I lost during the move (besides an amazing history of bizarre search phrases that brought people to the site) was all our statistics. In the ten months we've been in our new home, traffic to the site has been pretty encouraging, but there are a number of older reviews that got imported and were never really promoted in our new space. They make up the Teleport City bottom ten, the least viewed reviews since we made the big move.
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Yes, We Have No Pappy
October. When the weather gets cooler (except when it's 85 degrees outside) and drinkers turn to thoughts and tumblers of whiskey (unless, like me, your thoughts never left it, even on the hottest of summer days), and Pappy Van Winkle begins to slowly rumble like that Hobbit dragon with hints that they might be releasing their annual allocation of whiskey upon the world any week now. Lazy newspaper and website writers will then conspire to fill up their page with yet another list of "the best whiskey in the world," in which they repeat the exact same thing they said last year and the year before and the exact same thing every other lazy content generator has coughed up (calling slapping together a slideshow and accompanying sentence "writing" is a bit much). This means it's also the time of year that liquor store employees start to get the nervous, annoyed shakes in anticipation of a legion of status seekers and well-meaning new buyers and gift seekers flocking to the store to inquire as to the availability of what will inevitably be listed as the best, most desirable whiskey: Pappy Van Winkle.
Cry of the Banshee
I'm guessing child protection agencies today would cringe at the thought of a wee sprout staying up until two or three in the morning just so he can thrill as Boris Karloff lurks in some shadows or Vincent Price bugs out his eyes at some fantastic and horrible sight. But for you Teleport City readers, such behavior should be par for the course, and I figure it's healthier than watching realty television, where there is just as much family dysfunction but far fewer werewolves. The first AIP horror films I remember seeing were Cry of the Banshee and The Terror. I would see Cry of the Banshee pop up once every couple of years, and then when I got cable television, The Terror seemed to pop up every other night. Cry of the Banshee I first saw on a wildly enjoyable night that also boasted broadcast of the Hammer version of The Hound of the Baskervilles and Darby O'Gill and the Little People, from back when children's movies used to be fun and imaginative and sometimes even dark, scary, and not filled with sassy pre-teens driving go-carts and having sleepovers. instead, they had drunks dancing jigs and Sean Connery punching people in the face.
Revenge of Frankenstein
When last we saw Baron Victor Frankenstein, he was being marched to the guillotine to face a beheading for the murders committed by his man-made man, not to mention the murders in which he himself dabbled. Well, you can't keep a good mad scientist down, and there are none better or madder than Cushing's Frankenstein. With the help of a prison attendant who wants access to the Baron's peculiar talents, Frankenstein escapes the execution and sets up a new identity and a new medical practice in another town. Hey, cheating death is what Frankenstein is all about, right? All seems to be going well for the doctor, who has a bustling private medical practice and a commendable public hospital for the poor. Sure he draws the ire of the local medical society when he refuses to join their ranks, but all in all, this new Dr. Stein (put a lot of thought into that one, didn't ya, Victor? Better than Alucard, I reckon) seems to have turned over a new leaf and started working for the good of mankind. But wait…wasn't that what he thought he was doing the last time around?
Cultural Gutter: Gothic Galactic
My latest article for The Cultural Gutter is now up. In keeping with the season, it's science fiction with the heart of a horror film. Gothic Galactic takes a look at Mario Bava's brief forays into the cosmos, specifically the influential Planet of the Vampires, with special guest appearances by Caltiki and Hercules int he Haunted World.
Mummy's Shroud
Ho hum, the mummy again. That wouldn't normally be my reaction, as I'm rather a fan of mummies and the havoc they wreak upon the living, but this entry into the Hammer compendium of vengeful Egyptian crypt guardians manages to do very little beyond eliciting a yawn. The Mummy's Shroud's problems are several, and not the least of them is the fact that it fulfills what seems to be the mummy's curse demanding that all mummy movies be more or less exactly like all other mummy movies. This was Hammer's third mummy movie. There is practically nothing at all on display in this film that is surprising. The plot is a rehash of the tried and true and terribly over-used mummy movie plot involving an expedition that disturbs a mummy's tomb only to have some mad Arab resurrect the mummy and send it out to kill those who desecrated the temple. Honestly, the things you can do with a mummy are rather limited, so the spark in the story must come from telling it in a unique fashion or injecting some new element into the proceedings to keep them, at the very least, fresher than the cloth-swathed ghoul delivering terror on the screen.
Lupin III: Elusiveness of the Fog
Referring to anything that happens in a Lupin III cartoon as "realistic" is folly, but the teleivsion special Lupin III: Elusiveness of the Fog pushes the boundaries even for the Lupin universe, where purple midgets in leisure suits threaten the world and Fiats somehow can drive up castle walls. I've always preferred Lupin's slightly more grounded in reality exploits. Granted, we're talking relative frames of reference here, but at the core of things, I like Lupin and his crew matching wits against their foes and pulling heists in a world that seems at least vaguely familiar. Elusiveness of the Fog, however, puts an entirely scifi/fantasy twist on the Lupin formula and gives us a goofy, breezy time travel adventure that manages to be disposably entertaining without being all that good.
Crusher Joe
Here's a good example of why you need to take care in how you make snap judgments about things (as in, judgments made quickly and potentially without all the facts, not judgments where it's judged to be appropriate to wag your head and yell, "Oh snap"). Before sitting down to watch it for this review, I'd never seen Crusher Joe. Not only had I never seen it, it never even occurred to me that I might want to see it. I'd heard of it, seen it around, but I never bothered with it. And I handled it in this matter for one reason and one reason only: the title sounded kind of lame. I mean, Crusher Joe? Wasn't he in Mike Tyson's Punch Out? Wasn't he one of the ham 'n' eggers the old WWF would trot out for their Saturday Night Main Event when they wanted someone for a superstar to beat? I think Crusher Joe used to tag team with Leapin' Lanny Poffo.
Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro
People who are not familiar with the character of Lupin the Third are still likely to have heard of and perhaps even seen this movie thanks entirely to its being the directorial debut of Hayao Miyazaki in the world of feature film. Even many non-anime, non-animation moviegoers know Miyazaki's name thanks to the man having single-handedly directing more "timeless classics" than the entirety of the Disney animation studios. These films include My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle. Several of his films (most notable Nausicaa) rank among my top films of all time, and I've never let a friend have a little kid without me sending them a copy of My Neighbor Totoro as a gift (usually accompanied by a copy of Godzilla's Revenge, as both should be required viewing for any wide-eyed and adventurous kid who needs to be brought up proper).
Odin: Photon Space Sailer Starlight
Let me start off by saying that I love Odin. Absolutely love it. All those people in the world who call it one of the worst animated films of all time? Liars. Every one of them. Dirty, rotten, filthy liars. Let me further preface that admission by freely admitting that I have no illusions as to the quality of Odin. It's awful. It's a shining example of everything that can go wrong with anime feature filmmaking. It's bloated, needlessly long, often tedious, thinly characterized, nigh incomprehensible, and since the creators dreamed that it would be a Yamato-style series, it doesn't even have an ending. Even if, like me, you are a fan of so-called "old anime," there's a 99% chance that if you rent Odin, you will never make it to the end (much like the filmmakers themselves). And there's a pretty high probability that it will make you angry at me, and possibly mildly violent over the fact that I somehow swayed you into thinking it might be a good thing to add to your queue. So let me get this out of the way right now: Odin is a completely pointless 140-minute disaster that you should avoid at all costs.
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Angels: Shuck struck out. Trout homered to right on a 1-1 count. Pujols struck out. Hamilton struck out. 1 run, 1 hit. Angels 1, Red Sox 0.
Fifth Inning
Angels: Callaspo struck out. Hawpe grounded out, second baseman Pedroia to first baseman Napoli. Conger homered to right on a 2-1 count. Aybar grounded out, third baseman Holt to first baseman Napoli. 1 run, 1 hit. Angels 2, Red Sox 0.
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Angels: Tazawa pitching. Aybar tripled to center. Trumbo hit a sacrifice fly to center fielder Ellsbury, Aybar scored. Trout walked on four pitches. Aceves pitching. Pujols popped out to shortstop Iglesias. Hamilton doubled to left, Trout to third. H.Kendrick grounded out to first baseman Napoli. 1 run, 2 hits, 2 left on. Angels 3, Red Sox 0.


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SugarCRM is a relatively young company hoping to be the sweet spot on the menu of CRM solutions. Based in San Jose, California (US), the company was founded by John Roberts, Clint Oram, and Jacob Taylor, who brought skills from their backgrounds with E.piphany, BroadVision, Baan, and IBM to the company. SugarCRM provides a number of CRM products, which are based on its open source core product, Sugar Sales. The following study concerns the SugarCRM phenomenon and one of its customers, Prevalent Networks. It highlights some of the reasons a company like Prevalent would be attracted to an open source solution such as SugarCRM, as well as some of the potential difficulties.
SugarCRM's business is to sell a more feature-packed commercial version of its open source product (licensed under its version of the Mozilla Public License), while eventually working the commercially-released features back into the open source core. Additionally, the company offers support, implementation services, hosting, and CRM appliances. CEO John Roberts explained:
We generate revenue from a very small percentage of the people that use our software, which was part of our business model from day one and that's the way it should work. We want to be paid when people upgrade to our professional edition. Once they're truly in production, they are indeed getting value from the software and want more.
We generate revenue from a very small percentage of the people that use our software, which was part of our business model from day one and that's the way it should work. We want to be paid when people upgrade to our professional edition. Once they're truly in production, they are indeed getting value from the software and want more.
This could become a pleasant percentage for the company. The first month of SugarCRM's existence saw 40 downloads of its open source beta product, the second month saw about 1,000, in the third about 5,000, the fourth about 14,000, and in September it had reached about 21,000 for the month. With that sort of expanding pool of sites experimenting with or using SugarCRM, there could be a wide net of potential clients and development resources. However, downloads do not necessarily translate into sales, which explains why the company is pushing its solution on several different fronts. For example, even if companies host SugarCRM's application via other providers, clients still may prefer to purchase support from SugarCRM, which essentially extends the company's services to areas where customers would want to rely on SugarCRM's expertise.
The Sugar Sales application cannot yet compete with all of the CRM market's well-known vendors on functionality alone but its hyper development rate and strong customer support have made it a compelling product to hundreds of sites already in production. SugarCRM is working at the pace typically espoused by the open source mantra of "release early release often" by slating releases of its product every six to seven weeks.
Customer Study
Currently, the SugarCRM solutions are targeted toward companies with annual revenues between the $50 to $200 million (USD) range. The products are geared toward 5 to 500 users with a budget range at the top end of that spectrum around $150,000 (USD). These amounts make Sugar Sales Professional a contender with a number of products that Jonathan Dambrot, Founding Partner at Prevalent Networks, compared in his search for a better CRM solution.
Prevalent Networks is an information security consulting firm that does vulnerability assessments, legislative compliance, and other work in the field of Internet and network security. Prevalent's main goal is to work with its clients on mitigating internal and external risk. Prevalent employees need to keep information concerning their clients up-to-date on a regular basis and they need to do it easily and from remote sites. Jonathan Dambrot stated that his company had been using FrontRange Solutions GoldMine for its CRM application.
Because Prevalent Networks' employees often work from various locations outside of the company's headquarters they must access the CRM application from these sites. Even though there is a web-based product that sits on top of the GoldMine application, Jonathan's group was not comfortable working with the GoldMine architecture. One of his major issues was that he couldn't get buy-in from all of the Prevalent employees—the engineers and consultants wouldn't use the product. Although GoldMine has a lot of important features, features that don't get used don't help. Thus, Prevalent figured out its requirements for a CRM application and started to research alternatives.
Prevalent's main requirements were to maintain and manage client information in real time and to be able to do so on a system that was both easy-to-use and on which it is easy to train new employees. After they considered scaling out their existing GoldMine solution, they began to research other products including Microsoft Business Solutions (MSBS) CRM, Salesforce.com, and Sugar Sales Professional. In addition, Jonathan wanted a system that would be reliable and solid enough to support Prevalent's planned growth to about one hundred users within the next two years.
How did those products compare for Jonathan's requirements?
Getting ahead of ourselves, let's begin with the future. What would a company like Prevalent consider solid enough to support their growth? Since they were using GoldMine, they had an idea of what a Windows and Microsoft SQL Server environment could do, which would be similar to the type of platform that MSBS CRM supports. On the other hand, SugarCRM is based on the LAMP stack. That means that Sugar recommends a well-known standard combination of operating system, web server, database, and programming language, namely Linux, Apache, MySQL, and the application itself is written in PHP (note that sometimes the P in LAMP refers to Perl or Python). However, Sugar Sales Professional can just as easily function in other environments, such as Windows (a WAMP environment), UNIX, or BSD/Mac OS X systems. SugarCRM was able to offer information about the scalability of its product and Prevalent was comfortable with open source technologies like Apache and PHP. It is well-documented that Apache is the dominant server platform for the World Wide Web, and PHP has built a reputation as an easy-to-work-with scripting language—adaptable to many different applications. This combination went toward satisfying Prevalent's requirements for its planned growth and the platform hints at the usability issue. Namely, the web browser interface is familiar thus Prevalent's users could pick up on the navigation fairly quickly. According to Jonathan, "Not only is it scalable, but it's web-based—[when] we have a new user come on board, whether they're in-house or remote, it's pretty straightforward."
Secure with the future scalability of the product, there were still other issues to consider. For example, ensuring the product is truly user-friendly is one issue but making sure its features actually support the users' activities would found some of the rationale behind selecting the product. Prevalent needs to manage a multimillion dollar pipeline and track its employees' activities with respect to client accounts. While the Sugar Sales Professional product can do quite a bit toward that end, the functionality performance graph below shows that both GoldMine and MSBS CRM, for the most part, currently outperform Sugar Sales Professional in terms of brute functionality.
In the graph, bars running to the right of the zero baseline mean the product supports a greater quantity of functionality than Sugar Sales Professional, while bars running to the left of the zero baseline mean the product does not support as great a quantity of functionality. This graph is useful for identifying general competitive functional areas from a high level. It addresses the whole hierarchy of over 2,000 criteria from TEC's CRM model so really a company should look more deeply into the product's capabilities before making a judgement on what can best serve its requirements.
A contribution analysis graph of the products offers a different perspective. If we view the functionality from a basis of setting every category of CRM criteria in our model to an equally relevant importance we can easily see which areas in each product most contribute to the product's overall functionality. The following graph does not chart the products in relation to one another but rather only with reference to each product's own areas of concentration.
The contribution analysis graph above shows that when every category in TEC's CRM model is of equal importance MSBS CRM displays a fairly evenly wavering line that crosses the different categories. This means each category of criteria is as important in contributing the amount of overall functionality to the Microsoft CRM product. GoldMine has a lot of peaks and valleys. SugarCRM lets the marketing automation, sales force automation, and analytics areas define the focal points of its product. It also has potential to satisfy different industries and support product technology areas, whereas the other categories are rather neglected. What does this graph mean? It is likely that the Microsoft solution has fewer peaks and valleys because it has a longer history and thus the time and resources focused into supporting a wide variety of user requirements. That is, it supports a fairly complete range of criteria for each category so it's likely to apply to a broad base of clients.
SugarCRM's chart however is not surprising, when we consider that SugarCRM only recently (mid 2004) introduced its product. It's likely that SugarCRM began by focusing on a few core areas, in particular, as an open source product it would be responding closely to the demands of its core user base. Often with open source projects, if there isn't a high demand for specific functionality, namely if a client company doesn't have reason to sponsor the development of that functionality or developers have not had reason to code it, that functionality won't show up in the product. The converse is true as well, when the user community starts demanding a feature, it gets developed rather quickly. The latter point was made clear in SugarCRM's practice, as John Roberts explained how the company's release cycles reflect their users' demands,
An example is that after we did our 1.0 everyone started asking for internationalization—and internationalization is something we were going to do a little bit later, but we rearranged our roadmap and focused our next release on it and we released that in August as 1.1.
An example is that after we did our 1.0 everyone started asking for internationalization—and internationalization is something we were going to do a little bit later, but we rearranged our roadmap and focused our next release on it and we released that in August as 1.1.
Thus the product is now translated in about fifteen different languages to support the international community. Within SugarCRM's main focal points (marketing automation and sales force automation according to TEC's CRM model) we can delve further into the degree to which Sugar Sales Professional supports the criteria. The contribution analysis of marketing management shows a blue baseline of what a product would look like if each area was given an equal priority.
One can see that Sugar Sales Professional has focused on reporting, campaign optimization, and database connectivity. Outside of reporting the other areas are where SugarCRM is in fact targeting a lot of its future development.
In terms of its sales force automation (SFA), the greatest contribution of functionality comes in the area of service and sales support management, pipeline management and the core SFA functionality.
The graphed functionality corroborates a customer profile revolving around the type of features that Prevalent sought. Sugar Sales Professional provides the key functionality to let a company create, maintain, and view sales opportunities; do some analysis based on the activities of its users; identify customers by name, location, and business characteristics; and manage the pertinent data for these processes. Knowing that the product could handle the essentials of what they needed was one issue, but Prevalent also desired other features, which were not as much of a priority.
Prevalent consulted with SugarCRM and verified against the company's development roadmap. This is an area where open source communities shine like a flashlight for the would-be customer on the vendor's path. As an open source-based company SugarCRM relies on its user, developer, and partner community to publicly engage in finding and fixing bugs, recommending good solutions for their product roadmap, and expressing their likes and dislikes with the product. That means that a company like Prevalent has quite an opportunity to review the feedback of SugarCRM's actual users, which can help inform it with an impression about how responsive the company will be solving problems and following-through with developing important requirements. Jonathan explained why he appreciated that SugarCRM was able to demonstrate its commitment,
I've looked at several open source products that when you look at their web sites you see a request from 2001 that is still not done. I know [SugarCRM] will make things happen and therefore it made it a lot easier in terms of the decision making they instilled trust in me.
I've looked at several open source products that when you look at their web sites you see a request from 2001 that is still not done. I know [SugarCRM] will make things happen and therefore it made it a lot easier in terms of the decision making they instilled trust in me.
Open source vendors, often in the early stages of introducing their solution to the world, struggle to develop the kind of trust that is necessary for client adoption of their system. Potential clients need to know that the leaders coordinating development of the software will commit and follow-through. Certainly SugarCRM got a boost in this regard by garnering venture funding from Draper Jurvetson, which allowed their developers to blast full time into their product development. This is something that open source developers have not traditionally had the ability to rely on so early in their product's life cycle.
Prevalent did not require SugarCRM to implement the system, rather they installed everything themselves. Prevalent had to develop their own method for migrating their data from GoldMine to Sugar Sales Professional (SugarCRM now offers a utility to do this migration). Furthermore, Prevalent had some individual business process requirements that SugarCRM developed for them. According to Jonathan,
To be quite frank, if we'd wanted to spend the time on it, we'd have done some of it ourselves. They [SugarCRM] understand the product far better than anyone else at this point so we felt that instead of spending our resources internally on stuff, we had to be working on our core competencies, let them work on theirs, and let them build it for us.
To be quite frank, if we'd wanted to spend the time on it, we'd have done some of it ourselves. They [SugarCRM] understand the product far better than anyone else at this point so we felt that instead of spending our resources internally on stuff, we had to be working on our core competencies, let them work on theirs, and let them build it for us.
As a CRM solution with open source underpinnings, it would have been possible for Prevalent to develop these changes on their own but it wasn't something they wanted to do—better to rely on the core team's expertise.
In sum, Prevalent chose Sugar Sales Professional for its capacity to support their current and future requirements, its usability, and its cost. They determined that costs would rise prohibitively for more than five users on MSBS CRM and Salesforce.com as opposed to what they'd spend on GoldMine or Sugar Sales Professional. Depending on the amount of users, Sugar Sales Professional can range up to about $250 (USD) per user per year (including annual maintenance and support). At that range, Jonathan believes his company began to see payback in three to four months. His engineers finally swallowed their medicine and now use the system.
Since September, SugarCRM has made improvements listed in their roadmap, including lead management, calendaring, customizable home page, advanced reporting, team selling with data security, and a quotes and price list. The company's 2.0 release brought a number of other changes, namely the launch of an off-premise (hosted) solution, which the company intends to position as competition to Salesforce.com and Siebel. SugarCRM's approach contrasts to the multi-tenant architectures a number of other CRM companies provide; instead SugarCRM offers a single-tenant architecture (application and a database for each client).
The company also hopes to get customers biting for its SugarCube, which is a preconfigured rack server. The SugarCube appliance comes in single or dual CPU units with a preinstalled and preoptimized Sugar Sales Professional system. The SugarCubes are LAMP systems running on Red Hat Linux with the Zend Performance Suite, which makes them the same machines the company uses for its hosting center.
As SugarCRM found its customer demand increasing, it had to find ways to better support migrations from other systems. A GoldMine migration tool was one item on the list, but they had a high rate of users requesting migration tools for other products and thus created an import tool with custom import maps, again targeting Salesforce.com by allowing users to import contacts, accounts, and opportunities to the SugarCRM system.
As an open source vendor, SugarCRM benefits from its user community. The company will need to tread carefully here for several reasons. First, it will be important to avoid alienating the open source user community with its commercial editions. John Roberts expressed this sentiment in claiming that they are "die-hard open source as part of the DNA of the company," thus SugarCRM expresses its genes by gradually pushing its commercial development efforts back into its open source solution.
Second, it will have to manage partner and user contributions wisely. Some professional open source developers have noted that poorly managed open source projects can become overrun with code taking the project into the wrong direction and thus killing its momentum.
In this regard, one step SugarCRM is taking in the right direction seems clear from its recognized developer program. SugarCRM found that companies doing their own implementations wanted to customize the product for specific needs. Especially VARs that participate in SugarCRM's open source development—they are actually doing installations and customization thus they have a good idea of what is required for the system. SugarCRM hands out the recognized developer award to partners and individuals based on the code, application design, or community support these people provide. This is part of SugarCRM's effort to grow its partner community, especially in different areas of the world and shows that they give credence to wisely managing their open source project contributions.
Finally, in looking at their roadmap, we can see that e-mail marketing, Microsoft Outlook contact synchronization, forecasting, and territory management are some of the next areas the company has planned for development. This may denote one of their main challenges—that is, SugarCRM has to continue filling in areas of functionality they currently lack if they wish to position themselves against CRM offerings from many of the other well-recognized vendors (both proprietary and open source). The Sugar Sales Professional product quite capably satisfied Prevalent's needs without the additional confusion of software bloat. In the future, one hopes that SugarCRM continues to do a good job accommodating its increasing number of clients without losing sight of its product's usability.
About this Article
TEC launched its Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Evaluation Center (http://www.fossevaluation.com/). It provides impartial analyses of enterprise solutions that support FOSS platforms such as Linux. To complement the evaluation center, TEC is augmenting its research coverage of Free and open source service providers and solutions.
Please send comments or inquiries to the author, Joshua Chalifour, at email@example.com.


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Hello everyone! My name is Alex Pencil and this is my horrible sketchbook.
I will make sure to post something almost everyday.
Are my pictures to big?
Hello everyone! My name is Alex Pencil and this is my horrible sketchbook.
I will make sure to post something almost everyday.
Are my pictures to big?
good start
how ever i have a little tip the contrast in your drawings is very low try to darken the shadows and lines to make the object popout!!
Norman Rockwell study that I am going to do over.
Going to post more comics later...
Nice start man; good to see you doing the right kinds of studies (heads, gestures, etc.). I think you should focus mostly on basic forms right now, such as eggs, cups, boxes, etc. Drawing from Andrew Loomis would also be a really good idea (you can download the PDF books of his for free online). Fun With A Pencil and Figure Drawing for All Its Worth would be a good place to start. Hope to see more work soon!
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Hey there.
Check out this mans Life journey, it is possible to achieve your goal with hard work and deication. So keep your head up and it will turn to work out eventually.
I also got some books by Andrew Loomis.
Here is one of the assignments from his book "Drawing the Head and Hands"
Lmao the first group looks like a bunch of jelly beans.
continue with loomis method m8 as a supplement watch this video.It might get you into loomis method sooner and easier
Some more later.
Some perspective drawing.
I decided to do some drawing in the park last weekend...
Those basic volumes will become your bread an butter if you do them enough. Any time there is a piece of paper lying around or even an old magazine, that's what I practice and it's helped me tons.
If you really want to do some hard work, this is a good video:
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Thanks a ton for that link Ambiguity! I should really look at this guys videos.
Also some drawings of an egg.
Some Ellipse exercise
Some eggs
An exercise from one of Glen Vilppu's books.
Some cubes in perspective.
A hand
Some feet
Good night everyone. Zzzzzz
Sorry my drawings look so light.
Some exercises and doodles.
Good night/morning.
The studies you've been doing with geometry are solid, and will eventually pay dividends. When you can break complex forms into their constituent shapes you will be able to visualize things in 3D space much more efficiently and accurately.
Ah, cool. You found Lemec's tutorials on youtube. Those are good.
Crit: Try to make your lines more meticulous and neat. It will pay dividends. For these last few exercises, try them again and try to make the lines as clean as possible while preserving the sense of depth. Everything, even line quality, contributes to the illusion of depth.
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