Ned Lilly, CEO of xTuple recently blogged concerning xTuple’s open-source philosophy: “Our users – whether they’re community members using the totally free version, or commercial customers using (a paid license-version)- are in control of their own destinies. They don’t have to worry about picking up the Wall Street Journal one morning and seeing that their […]
Read More →Atlanta Rod and Manufacturing Co, Inc. in Lavonia, Georgia manufactures anchor bolts, embeds, headed bolts and construction fasteners to customer specifications. They had become frustrated with their old Thoroughbred software, and chose Friendly Systems to implement PostBooks® by xTuple as their new business software. PostBooks® characteristics easily handled recording the specs needed for each custom […]
Read More →Recent economic conditions have accelerated the trend to bring open source principles to business software. Sourceforge publishes a Top 25 Projects at the end of each month, and as of August 31, the top 3 positions were all held by open source ERP programs. The top of the list was PostBooks® ERP & CRM by […]
Read More →What is Open Source Software, and what does it mean for small and medium businesses? “Open Source” means that the source code for the software is freely available for review and modification. Some open source software is developed strictly by a group of volunteers, but there are many major projects which have corporate sponsors. For […]
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