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We have a vested interest in — and make our own — improvements to the user experience on SourceForge. After all, we are at well over one million downloads (and growing every day) from our project page PostBooks ERP, accounting, CRM by xTuple .

Sharing this article on "SourceForge’s Ongoing Effort to Eliminate Misleading Ads" which explains how the open source community can help make...

PostBooks ® has been successful on Debian and Ubuntu for a while now and for all those who asked, it is finally coming to Fedora.

The review request has just been submitted and the spec files have also been submitted to xTuple as pull requests so future upstream releases can be used with rpmbuild to create packages.

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A few small things outstanding:...

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The generic single-user software license key for xTuple PostBooks® Edition expired on March 1, 2015 . You will be unable to log into your xTuple database, if you did not renew your complimentary license before that time. If you have already received a PostBooks® license directly from xTuple, you may ignore the rest of this message.

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The release of xTuple ERP 4.8.0 brings with it an exciting feature that should open up new possibilities for those of you writing your own custom scripts. As some of you may know, Qt handles the firing of events and the reaction to those events using the concept of Signals (events), and Slots (event receivers) . This allows us to do things such as refresh the list of open sales orders from...

Those of you able to join us for our xTupleCon user conference in October heard me proclaim that 2015 would be the "Year of the Customer." I'm sure more than a few people rolled their eyes. "Yeah, whatever. Sure, xTuple's a little different, but they're still a software vendor." Right? Well, here's where we start delivering on that promise.

In the summer of 2013, then-sophomore Ashby Crumpler found herself at an interview at xTuple, an open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software company, specialized for manufacturers and distributors, in Norfolk, Va. Crumpler was trying to get a summer internship in the sales department when xTuple employee and JMU alumna Missy Schmidt decided that she would be better suited in the...

As much of the world slowly returns to the post-holidays work schedule, you might be surprised at how much has been happening at xTuple in recent weeks.

We've just released xTuple 4.8, which is arguably the biggest release since 4.0 for us. There are major new enhancements in the Desktop, Mobile Web, and xTupleCommerce customer-facing website...

We've got a whole new Quality...

This is a question I hear all the time! Whether you're a business owner, startup entrepreneur, big-thinker, friend or family, the answer is simple.

It depends.

The cost of a website relies on the requirements of the project, how the site will scale in size in the future, and how robust the site needs to be. It’s similar to comparing vehicles. You can buy a Honda, or you can...

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Open source ERP leader releases new Mobile Warehouse and Quality Management functionality, reaffirms commitment to Desktop app with major new features

xTuple, the world’s #1 open source ERP software, announced today a major new release of its award winning Enterprise Resource Planning suite and a community-focused product roadmap for the next several releases into...

The best opportunity to #GrowYourWorld for your “Next Business” is the democratization of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Businesses of all sizes — from startup to Global 1000 — should have the same access and ability to actively use powerful business management software, at an affordable cost.

To that end, xTuple — the word’s #1 open source ERP — hopes as many companies as...

xTuple makes next generation business management software that grows and matures with your company. When we say “next generation,” we mean it.

At xTuple, we’ve created Accounting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Corporate Relationship Management (CRM) software that is more than evolutionary. It’s revolutionary. Not only does it provide one platform that efficiently and...

One of the very fortunate parts of my job as head of sales is that I get to travel all over visiting with the xTuple community and prospective xTuplers. I am just back from a whirlwind road trip, on the heels of several road tips. I was up and down the East Coast from Norfolk, VA to Toronto, ONT to Atlanta, GA. As you might imagine, I have enjoyed a healthy variety of accents. Either up in the...

By Paul Rubens

While the ERP market is dominated by software giants like SAP and Oracle, there are plenty of open source ERP options. Take a look at the ERP market and you'll find a landscape dominated by a handful of commercial products offered by well-known enterprise software vendors such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Sage.

Top Open Source Community Awards Announced at xTupleCon 2014 — Business partners receive accolades for achievement in sales, technical expertise, implementation success, and customer support and satisfaction

Read more at: http://www.xtuple.com/press/top-open-source-community-awards-announced-xtuplecon14

xTuple’s Global Conference proves business value of Open Source — Event...

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Event emphasizes “365 Days to Return on Investment” achieved with improved business processes and supply chain operational benefits

The success of xTupleCon 2014 is evidence of the business value of open source, declare senior research analysts in attendance at xTuple’s second global user conference.

The conference opened with a private reception...

Juliana Louback who applied to Debian during the second round of the GNOME Outreach Program for Women (OPW) in 2013, was selected for one of Debian's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2014 slots working on the Debian WebRTC portal . The portal is built using JSCommunicator , a generic HTML5 softphone designed to be integrated in other web sites, portal frameworks and CMS systems.

Juliana...

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Business partners receive accolades for achievement in sales, technical expertise, implementation success, and customer support and satisfaction

Open source business software vendor xTuple announces honors for top performers among its customers, partners, and open source community members. The company’s successful global user conference posted a 50 per cent growth...

Guest blog post by Ted Rohm, a senior research analyst at Technology Evaluation Center (TEC) focusing on ERP manufacturing solutions. He has over 20 years of experience in large-scale selection, design, development, and implementation projects.

xTuple, an award winning open source ERP vendor, recently held its user conference — xTupleCon 2014 — in its home town of Norfolk, VA. xTuple’s...

Thanks to everyone who joined us for xTupleCon 2014. It was a great week - from Woz-mania, to some great in-depth pre-conference workshops, to the post-conference partner meeting... and of course, the two full days of regular sessions and keynotes.

The xTuple Server is a powerful toolkit for installation and administration of Web-enabled xTuple ERP instances. This week, the xTuple Server evolved into a fully public open source project. All the information you need to run xTuple Server is now located in a public GitHub repository at https://github.com/xtuple/xtuple-server/wiki .

We used to have a private repo called xtuple-server-...