xTuple Reports Strong Growth of Open Source ERP
March 3, 2009 Alex Woodie
While the recession has forced many major ERP software companies to retrench their operations, open source ERP software makers such as xTuple (formerly OpenMFG) are reporting an explosion of new business. The new momentum, xTuple says, is the result of organizations increasingly questioning the value of existing ERP contracts while simultaneously overcoming their reluctance to bet their operations on the community development approach. Since the dot-com bust of 2000-2001, open source software has made inroads across nearly every aspect of information technology. Up and down the stack, from operating systems and databases to programming tools and Web app servers, traditional |