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bcwilson's picture

Wow, you guys are *everywhere*

Posted Tue, 09/15/2009 - 08:22 by bcwilson

We're very proud that you, the members and users of this site, come from all over--not just the good old USA, of course, but Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Russia--more countries than I can name here. It shows that when you offer a leading open source ERP solution for free, the whole world pays attention. We thought it would be fun to visualize this, so we created a new page on this site called xTmaps, where you can see the (approximate) locations of all site members.

Of course, we pay more than lip-service to our international reach--xTuple ERP is valuable all over the world because it offers sophisticated localization and internationalization features, including multiple currencies, complex tax structures, and support for over twenty different languages. And at xTuple Translation Portal you can download files to translate xTuple ERP into more than 20 languages.

 Thank you all for contributing to the wide-spread proliferation of xTuple around the globe! Read more »

Source Installing Postgresql on RedHat, Ubuntu and OSX

While xTuple does publish a full Installer which provides PostgreSQL, the preferred method for implementing a production PostgreSQL server is to build PostgreSQL from source. Using the Linux distribution provided packages (apt, yum, rpm, etc) has the potential to introduce incompatibilities and curtail the migration options. The easiest way to support the customer is to keep things simple - and building PostgreSQL from source is simple.

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ned's picture

Less techno-babble, more real benefit

Posted Tue, 08/18/2009 - 10:16 by ned

Last week I had the pleasure of moderating a panel where representatives of three xTuple customers discussed their experience with open source software.  It was, for me, the highlight of an otherwise greatly-diminished Open Source World conference (formerly LinuxWorld).  Unusual for a show that has historically focused on things like network switches and kernel hackers, the audience (in our session at least) seemed heavily skewed toward actual business users.

This was a very good thing.  A lot of us in the open source world can get caught up in our own little private world of techno-babble, and sometimes miss the opportunity to tell our story to the larger audience of everyday businesspeople.  It's like some of the later Star Trek TV shows, where they spent way too much time explaining the (fictional) details of space-time continuums, subatomic fluctuations, and warp coils.

We tell people this all the time, but it bears repeating:  Open source is not just for geeks.  In fact, it's really not a technical phenomenon at all.  It's much more of a business process improvement - simply, a better way to make and maintain a product. The product just happens to be software. Read more »

jrogelstad's picture

The Zero Footprint Advantage

Posted Thu, 08/13/2009 - 12:19 by jrogelstad

The decision making process for selecting an ERP system is often reliant on the needs of Accounting and Operations people whose primary concern is functionality.   Yet I.T. Administrators bear the burden of deploying the application and anything that goes wrong seems to fall on their shoulders.  Ask any I.T. person what they want in a business system and the answer is “Something that is easy as possible to maintain.”  For this reason I.T. Managers often assume that what would be easiest is a browser-based solution because they don't have to install anything on their users' client machines.  Think again.  xTuple's zero footprint solution is easier than that. Read more »

BC Wilson's picture

What's my motivation?

Posted Fri, 08/07/2009 - 16:11 by BC Wilson

It happens in our forums all the time. Someone posts a question like, “How do I set up PostgreSQL for a multiuser environment?” There's an answer to this question, of course, but it's not simple. You need to know a bit about PostgreSQL, about user adminstration, and about the xTuple ERP database. People seem to think we can paste an answer into the reply field and solve their problem, but what we usually do is point them to the resources they need to solve the problem themselves. Some people, unfortunately, put down xTuple ERP at this point and walk away. Read more »

 

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