SugarCRM, which provides commercial open-source CRM software, announced it will host its first-ever SugarCRM Global Developer Conference, May 3rd to 5th, 2007, at the Sainte Claire Hotel in San Jose. The company states that HP, Intel, Microsoft, MySQL, Novell, Pervasive, Oracle and Sun are among the industry players sponsoring the conference, which has been designed for developers, administrators, users and managers of CRM projects. Open-source CRM has worked amazingly well for some companies  with unique CRM needs. Should be an interesting conference. Find more info here: http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/events/developer-conference.html