“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
Matt Asay says that creating an open-source software able to attract significant outside development contributions is difficult, yet important. Quid pro quo paradigms, as Stephane Croisier calls them, can foster more sustainable open source communities. Both Jahia and OpenERP found their way to foster external participations.
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The Netifera project - managed by a startup of five engineers working full-time on the development - began about two years to create an application which unifies and integrates many different types of security tools.The projects aims to become a standardized way for open source network security tools to interact as well as providing a complete collection of useful security functionality. Have a look at screenshots, read the documentation and download it if you like, let me know your feedback.
opentaps now supports hibernate as well as the original ofbiz entity engine, have a look at the opentaps google map (world of opentaps) to locate nearest organization which use or provide services for opentaps.
Opentaps is a an open source ERP + CRM suite sponsored by Open Source Strategies Inc., and developed by full-time professional developers with the help of a community of contributors, recently adopted by Honeywell International.
Opentaps incorporates several open source projects, including Apache Geronimo, Tomcat, and Apache OFBiz for the data model and transaction framework; Pentaho and JasperReports for business intelligence; Funambol for mobile device and Outlook integration. Plus opentaps applications which provide user-driven applications for CRM, accounting and finance, warehouse and manufacturing, and purchasing and supply chain management.
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