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Rieter's
innovative leadership and theoretical acoustics combined with advanced
manufacturing processes and quality system design by Nittoku have established
UGN as a preferred supplier of acoustic, interior trim and thermal management
products to the Japanese transplant automotive industry in North America.

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, the world's
leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management
(CRM) software, and SpikeSource, a provider of business ready open source
software, today announced that SugarCRM will distribute Spike Stack for Sugar
Professional and resell Spike Net. Also, SpikeSource has created a
customized channel within Spike Net that delivers only the updates required to
support Sugar Professional running on the Spike Stack.com

About SugarCRM
SugarCRM is the world's leading provider of commercial open source
customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes.
SugarCRM's Sugar Suite easily adapts to any business environment by offering a
more flexible, cost-effective alternative than proprietary applications.

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Spike Stack for Sugar Professional is a
fully configured LAMP stack optimized for use with Sugar Professional. As a result, companies save
time and money by eliminating the need to dedicate IT resources to manually
find, filter and test their own software. It incorporates only the
components required to support the application in a fully configured package
and includes Apache, MySQL and PHP. For more
information, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 87 SUGARCRM toll free in the US, email
contact@sugarcrm .
Prior to joining UGN, Cato was vice president, human resources for The
McShane Companies .

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About SpikeSource:
SpikeSource was founded in 2003 to help accelerate the adoption of open
source in the enterprise.
"We are excited to add such a skilled human resources director as Deborah
to our team," said Anthony.

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Spike
Net delivers customized software updates to maintain the stack in a secure and
reliable state.
SpikeSource Spike Net delivers an ongoing stream of fully tested software
updates.
"Innovative industry partnerships that deliver integrated , well-supported
products to customers is part of what will drive the continued high growth of
open source in modern enterprises," said Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB.
The on-premise subscription cost is $239 per user per year. Subscriptions
include full access to the source code, 12 months of application updates,
installation assistance, trouble ticketing, global weekday email-based
technical support (9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Pacific Time), and full production
support including patch and fix distributions .
SugarCRM's open source architecture allows companies to more easily customize
and integrate customer -facing business processes in order to build and
maintain more profitable relationships.

UGN Inc. Names Cato Director of Human Resources

Additionally, she has a Senior Professional Human
Resources (SPHR) certification and is a certified human resource professional
through Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).com .

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Open source is under continuous development and companies find it
increasingly difficult to keep pace with code updates. "These kinds of collaborations
are important given the speed at which open source adoption is moving past
infrastructure into applications.com, or visit http://www. In
her position, Cato will use her 16 years of experience to oversee all human
resources activities for UGN, including compensation and benefits, training
and development, managing human resource systems, and long-range planning to
support company objectives . She also
has held human resources positions at BVM Olienti and Wegmans Food Markets."
Cato earned a bachelor of arts from The State University of New York
Potsdam, Potsdam N.

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The stack can be
downloaded in addition to Sugar Professional to provide an integrated package
that includes a one-year subscription to SpikeNet for an introductory price of
$1890.

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"SugarCRM, SpikeSource and MySQL are all committed to making open source
software compelling to developers, IT departments and the large market of non-
technical users.sugarcrm. CHICAGO, Deborah Cato has been named director of
human resources for UGN, according to Peter Anthony, president and CEO. "She has proven, over the years, to be
innovative, creative, and successful, and we look forward to similar successes
at UGN.

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Spike Stack for Sugar Professional is tuned specifically to meet the
infrastructure needs of Sugar Professional customers.

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"Spike Stack's server pre-
configuration , tests and certification is a great complement to Sugar
Professional."
"The SugarCRM SpikeSource relationship shows how infrastructure and
applications are coming together to create complete solutions for business
customers," said Kim Polese, CEO, SpikeSource.php . SugarCRM offers several deployment
options, including on-demand, on-premise and appliance-based solutions to suit
customers' security , integration and configuration needs.ugnusa.

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Customers also receive
a one-year subscription to MySQL Network."

Pricing and Availability
Spike Stack for Sugar Professional and Spike Net will be available in
March, 2006 at http://www. It is
available on-premise, hosted or as an appliance , depending on customer needs. For more information visit http://www.spikesource. For
more information on UGN, visit the company's web site at
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SAN FRANCISCO, OSBC, SugarCRM Inc. In 2005 there were
6 ,700 updates to PHP, 2,965 to Apache and 6,805 to MySQL. SpikeSource
automatically aggregates updates and its 50,000-test suite ensures stability
by validating that each one performs as expected."
"Reselling the Spike Stack created specifically for Sugar Professional
appeals to our customers who are non-technical and desire a certified
technology stack to run their CRM solution on-site, " said John Roberts,
chairman, co-founder + CEO of SugarCRM.
Sugar Professional is the leading commercial open source CRM application
that offers greater flexibility with multiple deployment options . The company provides free tested and certified open
source software stacks, sells update and technical support service to
enterprises, certifies commercial software for use in open source
environments , and provides free testing and certification services for open
source projects. In her role, she was responsible for strategic creation,
direction and success of McShane's national human resources program.
Headquartered in Chicago, UGN was incorporated in 1986 as a joint venture
between Rieter Automotive Systems and Nihon Tokushu Toryo (Nittoku).