The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) held their All About the Cloud (AATC) event in San Francisco in early May. I represented xTuple, a member of the SIIA Software Division @SIIASoftware , at the conference.
At the annual honors ceremony, I accepted xTuple’s NextGen award, recognizing the company as one of the 2013 “Top Ten” most innovative companies transforming...
By popular demand, and building on the success of our first two PartnerCons, join us Thursday-Saturday, October 10-12, 2013, at xTuple Headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, for the inaugural xTupleCon — bringing together the World's #1 Open Source ERP User Community.
Partners, customers, open source community members — all are welcome!...
Now those guys, they know how to squeeze customers!
Some delightfully straight talk from Dell's software chief, John Swainson, in an interview with IDG . He's talking about their challenges rationalizing all the (largely IT admin) products they've acquired, notably through their buyout of Quest Software. That specific field is a little out of our wheelhouse here [at xTuple], but the...
The Virginia Beach Tough Mudder has a venue (and a new date!)
As we previously posted , xTuple has formed a team to participate in the world-famous Tough Mudder obstacle race to benefit the Wounded Warrior Foundation. The Virginia Beach Tough Mudder now also has an official location: Berkeley Plantation (the site of America's first Thanksgiving) and a new set of dates: June 8th &...
Open source is changing the world and OpenSource.com has resources to prove it
Unlike the venerable groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, my bullish prognostication for 2013 that “ commercial open source is simply a better model and is at its inflection point for growth ” is bearing fruit. Big business and governments around the world agree. Case in point, “ City of Munich stands by its...
We are actively seeking an App Store Product Manager, someone who can help us curate and attract code to augment the xTuple community ecosystem. Is it you?
The ideal candidate will be someone who is familiar with xTuple ERP and with scripting. The job requires someone comfortable reading code (C++ and JavaScript). He or she needs to understand a...
xTuple enjoyed a shout-out by Norfolk, Virginia, Mayor Paul Fraim at the Annual State of the City address on Friday, February 8, 2013. The specific excerpt of the mayor's speech follows and can be viewed in the video below (at 26-28 minutes):
"One area with potential to help reposition the city’s economy is technology. With our location midway between the Washington metro area and the...
In the food industry, not just any ERP software will do.
The regulatory and operational needs of food manufacturers and distributors mean that only a sophisticated, flexible, cost-effective ERP application such as xTuple can provide a viable solution.
We'd like to highlight the features that make xTuple a "natural" fit for food and describe our plans to serve this marketplace...
Recognizing xTuple ERP solutions as the “world's #1 open source ERP” means xTuple has become a significant threat to legacy business management software vendors in manufacturing and wholesale distribution.
PostBooks® was recently named a 'Featured Project' on Sourceforge . No small feat with over 320,000 projects on Sourceforge totaling 4,000,000 downloads per day. The Sourceforge...
Hatch is a mentorship-driven startup program for technology and design entrepreneurs ready to build a product, launch a company and change the world. Hatch accepts applications from companies located anywhere in the world and brings them to Norfolk, Virginia, to be mentored in an intense, hands-on 12-week session including assessments by local, regional and national experts and investors....
Silicon Anchor News, the online port for entrepreneurship, innovation and startups in Norfolk / Virginia Beach (USA), just announced Start Norfolk 3, an event bringing together individuals of different mind and skill sets, entrepreneurs, engineers, developers, designers, business people and everything in-between, with the goal of building a viable startup over a weekend.
Join Start...
Few can deny the success Apple has enjoyed over the last several years as we've watched people all around us move from dumb phone users straight to iPhone junkies. Sure, Google's Android is successful, but every day more and more people I know get to the Internet, their email and their Facebook accounts through i-Devices of one sort or another. Apple technology is everywhere. Next week at...
Economic gardening initiatives and accelerator programs for startup companies sprouted in the area in 2012.
Last April, StartNorfolk held its second startup weekend designed to connect entrepreneurs with people who have investment capital, management, design and programming experience to jump-start the best business ideas.
Inside Business highlights the top stories of 2012....
Have you noticed a new addition to the top navigation of our xTuple.com homepage? This is an area we reserve (as do most companies) for the most important, most sought after information on our website. With the New Year, we've decided that alongside the very things that define us — our products and solutions — belongs a direct link to information about xTuple Partners .
xTuple Partners...
My distribution compadre, Tom Atkins — a sales engineer at xTuple, and I know very well that our customers are always saying “it is all about the item.” In fact, one very smartly delayed their ERP implementation to ensure data synchronization throughout their existing systems first.
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Why such bullish prognostication?
Bottom line: commercial open source is simply a better model and is at its inflection point for growth. Open source is good for the global marketplace, innovation and the companies who back the projects. This is a winning "trifecta" — one now broadly recognized in education, business and governments worldwide.
Global Marketplace and FOSS...
The world famous extreme obstacle race, the Tough Mudder , is coming to Virginia Beach, Virginia (USA) — nearby to xTuple HQ — on June 1st! xTuple has formed xTuple X-men, a team of brave souls willing to make their way through miles of mud, ice-cold water, fire and electricity (just a little) for the sake of teamwork and to raise money for a great charity, the Wounded Warrior Project ....
Software is a commodity. There. I said it plainly. Microsoft and Sage won't like it. Wah! Sound of world's smallest violin playing sad music, fading into the land of a fairly sarcastic, but unfortunately this is a common tale...
You bought QuickBooks or Peachtree at OfficeDepot or BestBuy — wherever you buy office supplies —...
Last summer Jeremy Alessi's home air conditioning unit died and he and his family found themselves sweating in 90-degree heat.
But with hot air came a great idea — Handheld Handyman, a dedicated video chat application. It was picked as one of the three winners of Start! Peninsula held at Christopher Newport University in Newport News [Virginia (USA)] earlier this month.
The...
By Ryan Castillo, guest blogger
Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design. By providing developers the opportunity to take part in focused practice, away from the pressures of ‘getting things done’, the coderetreat format has proven itself to be a highly effective means of skill...