By Paul Rony on 2/23/2006 4:19 PM

We are hoping that the hefty installation requirements will not limit its use.  The worst part is all of the license agreements that you must navigate through during installation. 

 

SplendidCRM Plug-in for Outlook 2003 is almost identical to the plug-in from SugarCRM, but adds the ability to use Windows Authentication when communicating with SplendidCRM.

 

The only disappointing point is that, for compatibility purposes, we use the same SOAP interfaces as designed by the SugarCRM team.  I use the word disappointing because only a PHP developer would be satisfied by sending or receiving a record in the form of a 2-dimentional array of strings.  SOAP is an incredibly flexible and powerful transport with the ability to use strong data types, yet we are stuck storing everything in an array of strings.

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By Paul Rony on 2/22/2006 12:32 AM

Special thanks to Keven Goldman of Goldman Design.

By Paul Rony on 2/11/2006 3:02 AM

It has been an exciting week as we build our infrastructure to support regression testing.  We got a couple of HP/Compaq ProLiant DL360 G4s with support for 64-bit Windows.  On top of them, we installed VMware GSX Server 3.2.1 and proceeded to build testing operating systems to test SplendidCRM against SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, IBM DB2 Express-C and MySQL 5.

 

VMware GSX is not as powerful as VMware Workstation 5 when it comes to managing snapshots, but we needed a better way to run multiple simultaneous operating systems on a single machine.  In any case, VMware GSX is rock solid as are the DL360 G4s.  VMware has recently announced the release of a free version of the GSX product that they have renamed VMware Server.

 

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By Paul Rony on 2/3/2006 4:35 PM

On January 30, 2006, IBM released a free version of their DB2 UDB database. Here is the quote from their web page: "DB2 Express-C is completely free to download, develop, deploy, test, run, embed, and redistribute."

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/edition-expressc.html

I simply could not resist the temptation to add support for DB2.  This was a personal challenge as I have never developed for DB2, but had wanted to ever since they added the ability to support stored procedures a few short years ago.  SplendidCRM now supports all the major database platforms; this is something that SugarCRM has yet to accomplish.

So, for the last 4 days, I've been working on porting the 110 tables, 20 functions, 190 views, and 290 procedures from SQL Server to DB2.  Although I have yet to begin testing, my progress has been nothing short of phenomenal.  Here is a summary of the hours it has taken:

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By Paul Rony on 2/3/2006 5:19 AM

I got to see some early logo designs from Goldman Design http://www.goldmandesign.com.  If all goes well, we will release the new logo at the same time we release version 1.0.