"Eating your own dog food,” also called “dogfooding,” is a slang term used to define a scenario in which a company (usually, a software company) uses its own product to demonstrate the quality and capabilities of the product.
This is the definition provided by the free, non-profit web encyclopedia, Wikipedia , self-proclaimed as the “#5 website in the world, serving 482 million people...
Great post on why Business Intelligence is only utilized by 22% of small to mid-size businesses.
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Good BI increases revenue. In fact, new...
When upgrading commercial editions of xTuple ERP, there are a few basic points to pay attention to:
1. All the commercial editions are built upon the Standard Edition. So, when upgrading from one version to the next (e.g., from 3.7.0 to 3.8.0), you must first run the Standard upgrade package. In this example, the Standard upgrade package would be named '...
Open source software is available for free, along with its source code, and it has developed its own substantial following since the early days of computing. The best known implementations are in infrastructure areas, with the well-known Linux, Java, and PHP packages. Recently, it has gained added attention due to its central role in cloud IT, and through the growing Linux-based Android...
From CANNES, France—A collaboration between two global giants, Coca-Cola and Google, reeled in the Grand Prix in the inaugural year of the Mobile Lions contest here today [June 19, 2012].
The winning execution, developed by Grow Interactive in Norfolk, Va., was an app that allowed consumers to send Cokes to unsuspecting strangers at specially outfitted vending machines around the globe...
From Steve Goad of On the Road in Hampton Roads at Tech Nite 2012: "You would not think of Hampton Roads, Virginia, as an Application Mecca let alone a place to start up an Internet company. According to xTuple co-founder, Ned Lilly, President and CEO it’s an excellent community to start a company."
Goad continues, "About ten years ago, Ned Lilly co-founded xTuple, originally called...
A few months ago I wrote to warn you that some old database views and script toolbox methods would be removed from the xTuple core product. This work has been completed and will first appear in the 4.0.0Beta2. We don't yet have a date for that beta release.
Several of our partners have already made the necessary changes to their extension packages so they will be ready for the new...
Willow Garage sets its open-source software free to attract software developers and help make robots commonplace, but detractors say giving the software away is bad for business.
By Martin LaMonica for CNET , originally posted May 10, 2012
It would...
TheVARguy.com [website launched in January 2008] serves the IT channel, allowing VARs (value-added resellers) and MSPs (managed services provider) to engage in conversations about next-generation opportunities and business models.
At one point, The VAR Guy published the Open Source 50 — tracking how the top open source companies were working with VARs and IT service providers. So...
xTuple Director of Product Development John Rogelstad and lead Mobile Web developer Cole Davis were featured in the "Startup Showcase" at this gathering of JavaScript luminaries known as the Fluent Conference on Wednesday, May 30th in San Francisco.
2012 Fluent Conference — JavaScript & Beyond Startup Showcase xTuple interview posted to the O’Reilly YouTube Channel
What...
While I hate to toot my own horn, that is why I am here at xTuple, after all. To toot mine, yours and ours as the new @xTuple Marketing Director . I'm here to serve you: our open source community, our customers, our partners and the innovators and entrepreneurs who are just learning about us... all on a global scale.
So I invite you to email me directly and tell me what you need, and...
By Richard Foster for Virginia Business magazine's June 2012 Technology section, Virginia's Source for Business Intelligence.
Until recently, enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications were almost exclusively the province of global Goliath corporations with multiple locations, thousands of employees and very complicated back-office accounting and inventory needs.
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From "Promise -v- Delivery: Open Source Delivers On Promise" By Randy Kellum, Founder of Creative Innovative Solutions Group
Open Source is a technology approach alternative to your traditional or standard software solutions. Open Source Initiative is the governing body behind Open Source. Open Source, on many occasions, has been met with skepticism when implementing this strategy for...
We're always looking for better ways to help people become proficient with xTuple software. Our in-classroom training classes are always well attended and offer great opportunities to network and share with other xTuple users; check out the upcoming...
By Richard Foster
Increasingly, though, new technology is democratizing the business landscape. Companies like xTuple of Norfolk are offering affordable ERP software solutions to small and medium-sized businesses that want to integrate their business systems in a painless and cost-effective fashion.
By guest blogger Lisa Suhay, originally published in The Virginian-Pilot , May 13, 2012
A couple of weeks ago I was a granola-headed mom of four who ran a free chess program and wrote mermaid books and stories. However, after accidentally attending an Apprentice-like competition called Start Norfolk , I am now Suhay 2.0.
I "populate copy" instead...
By PJ Jakovljevic
This article features the third vendor from the same neck of the woods, xTuple (formerly OpenMFG), which recently turned 10 years young. As a commercial open source company, xTuple works with a global community of tens of thousands of professional users. Customers can tailor the vendor’s solutions with multi-platform support for Apple Mac, Microsoft Windows, Linux and...
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A free complement to xTuple’s desktop business management software is the new xTuple Mobile Web app which will debut at ComputerWorld’s Open Source Business Conference ( @OpenBusinessCon ) in San Francisco on May 21-22.
The Mobile Web app works with the...
By guest blogger P.J. Jakovljevic, originally posted at Technology Evaluation Centers , April 30, 2012
While Virginia might have seen its share of controversy over the recent laws on women’s reproductive rights, the region’s business and entrepreneurial climate is undisputed owing to vibrant enterprise applications vendors. One such vendor is Deltek — long reported by TEC as the...
Learn about open source robotics company Willow Garage , a leading edge risk-taker on PBS: America Revealed . Follow the company on Twitter @willowgarage .
Steve Cousins is CEO at Willow Garage in California. Willow Garage makes personalized robots, robots that do chores, such as load the dishwasher or take the dog for a walk. America Revealed host, Yul Kwon, met with Steve and some of...