We're pleased to announce the final release of xTuple ERP 3.5.0, now available for download from Sourceforge via the all-in-one installers. This is a major new release, with drop ship purchasing for distributors, expanded tooling support for manufacturers, basic time and expense entry for professional services, and much more (press release, final release notes).
We're also ready to go with the free trial period for our xTuple Cloud service. Read more about it here.
If you're upgrading your own database from a prior release, be sure to check out Monique's blog. And of course, if you were an XTN subscriber, we'd be doing it for you while you went and got yourself a glass of iced tea. Doesn't that sound nice?
Finally, a hearty thanks to our fantastic community of customers, partners, and open source users around the world for helping make this the best xTuple release yet!
Ned Lilly
In October 2001, Ned co-founded xTuple, originally called OpenMFG, with the aim of bringing the worlds of open platform software and enterprise resource planning (ERP) together to solve the unmet needs of small- to mid-sized manufacturers. In 1999, he was a co-founder of Great Bridge, an early business built around the PostgreSQL database which is also the core technology for xTuple today. Great Bridge was incubated inside Landmark Communications, a mid-sized media company where Ned directed corporate venture investments, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and startup activity. Prior to Landmark, Ned worked for a regional technology group in Washington D.C. and had a brief first career in political media — television, radio and a non-partisan news wire. He holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.A. from George Washington University.