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• Apache OFBiz Releases Branch 9.04

  THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES NEW VERSION OF LEADING SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK FOR ECOMMERCE, ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING, AND CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS Forest Hill, Maryland 20 April 2009 The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) developers, stewards, and incubators of leading community-driven Open Source projects announced the newest release of Apache Open For Business (OFBiz), a leading non-commercial enterprise software framework. Overseen by a Project Management Committee (PMC) that is responsible for all code released under the Apache OFBiz name, OFBiz Release Branch 9.4 marks the first major release in nearly two years. OFBiz comprises mature eCommerce, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Customer Relationship Management functionality with a general enterprise software framework and a set of base and special purpose applications. Today, OFBiz is one of the top enterprise software packages in the world, with hundreds of experienced service providers and thousands of live production instances. "As an ASF Project, no single company owns and markets the software exclusively," explained David E. Jones, original OFBiz co-creator and Chair of the OFBiz PMC. "Its meritocratic, community-driven nature results in software that is designed to be flexible and applicable to a broad range of real-world business needs, while at the same time freeing users from licensing fees and lock-in from both vendors and service providers." Many of the Project's code contributors develop custom OFBiz solutions professionally; a key benefit to its users is that the software can be easily adapted to the needs of any organization and includes functionality applicable to real-world business. By employing well-established Open Source technologies and standards such as Java, J2EE, XML, and SOAP, OFBiz applications can be used as-is, although they were designed to be customized to suit the needs of each end-user organization. As such, in addition to being supported and maintained by its PMC, the OFBiz community continues to grow its number of individual committers, as well as breadth of organizations using the software. Enterprise-grade Enhancements New functionality includes highly configurable enterprise-grade accounting; project management, human resources, and sales force automation applications; enhanced asset management and maintenance; eCommerce enhancements to meet the demands of today's online retail environments; visual theme and configurable portal support; a Web-based point-of-sale application; business intelligence tools, and various new reports. The release also features major improvements in overall production stability, quality, and security, including protection from vulnerabilities common to Web-based software; enhancements to marketing and content management functionality; as well as support for eBay and Google Checkout payment and billing service. Revised Versioning Traditionally the Project released updates every 1-2 years using the sequence-based software versioning scheme (the previous branch version was 4.0); however the Project now employs a time-based version system based on the date of release, similar to the Ubuntu Linux version numbers. As such, the latest version is known as "release9.04" because it has branched from the main code base (the "trunk") in April 2009. Additional resources for those getting started with OFBiz as well as those seeking to become more deeply involved are now available at the Project's newly-redesigned Web site at http://ofbiz.apache.org About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than sixty-five leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server the world's most popular Web server software. Through The ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way", nearly 300 individual Members and 2,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Google, HP, Microsoft, Progress Software, SpringSource, and Yahoo! For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ # # # 2009 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved. Apache, the ASF logo, Apache OFBiz, are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. Java and J2EE are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Google Checkout is a trademark owned by Google Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

  posted by jonesde 200 days ago

• OFBiz Becoming an Apache Software Foundation Project

  The Open For Business Project has been in the Apache Incubator since early this year and the incubation process is nearly complete. The official name of the project is now The Apache Open For Business Project, or Apache OFBiz for short (or AOFBiz for really short). The new URL for the Apache OFBiz site is: http://incubator.apache.org/ofbiz/ The incubation status page is here: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/ofbiz.html Please see that site for more details.

  posted by jonesde 1154 days ago

• File released: /Getting OFBiz/Getting OFBiz/GettingAndUsingOFBiz.pdf

  posted 1459 days ago

• Getting OFBiz Getting OFBiz file released: GettingAndUsingOFBiz.pdf

  posted 1460 days ago

• OFBiz GL/AR/AP Released Under Innovative Funding Model

  September 26, 2005 Open Source Strategies, Inc. and Undersun Consulting LLC announced today that the General Ledger application for the Open For Business open source project (www.ofbiz.org) is now in beta testing under a community funding model. The community funding model relies on contributions from members of the Open For Business Project community to cover the cost of developing open source software. Any member of the community can make a contribution of any amount towards the development effort. Users who contribute over a fixed amount can also start using theGeneral Ledger application immediately under a license which allows them to access and modify the source code. When contributions cover the initial development costs, the General Ledger application will be released under an open source license for all to use. With this funding model, the initial cost of open source software development can be covered either by a large number of small contributions or a few larger contributions. Larger contributors also benefit from having a completed application for a fraction of the time or cost of developing it themselves. Finally, when the development costs are recovered, the application is made available under a true open source license without use, modification, or distribution restrictions. Thus, the project benefits from a concentrated effort to create the seed of an open source application, which can then be extended through long-term community development. Because enterprise software is complex and expensive to develop, creating open source enterprise software has traditionally required sponsorship from either major users or venture investors. We hope this hybrid license is a third funding option which can accelerate the development of Open For Business and open source software in general, says Si Chen, Principal of Open Source Strategies, Inc. To date, the two sponsoring organizations, Undersun Consulting and Open Source Strategies, have already received $26,000 in sponsorship and contributions from the Open For Business community for the General Ledger application. This leaves $24,000, or slightly less than half of the total development costs, outstanding before the application is released as open source. Open For Business (www.ofbiz.org) is a suite of open source business applications, including ecommerce, Point Of Sales, order, customer, inventory, warehouse, marketing, manufacturing, and content management. In development by an international community since 2001, it has been used to deploy advanced solutions worldwide. The General Ledger application was developed to complement Open For Business by offering accounting support for key business processes, financial reports, and integration with external accounting systems. Open For Business has always been a very popular choice for enterprise applications due to its robust architecture and broad feature set. With the new General Ledger application, it takes a major step towards becoming an open source ERP solution, notes David E. Jones, partner of Undersun Consulting LLC. Undersun Consulting LLC (www.undersunconsulting.com) and Open Source Strategies (www.opensourcestrategies.com) are open source software companies and core developers of the Open For Business project. For further information about Open For Business and the General Ledger, respectively, see http://www.ofbiz.org and http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/accounting.php

  posted by jonesde 1504 days ago

• New OFBiz Mailing Lists

  The new Open For Business Mailing Lists can be found at http://lists.ofbiz.org.

  posted by azeneski 1906 days ago

• Open For Business Moves To Subversion!

  The Open For Business Project has moved its source repository to Subversion! You may access information on public access to this repository from http://svn.ofbiz.org

  posted by azeneski 1906 days ago

• Open For Business 3.0.0 Released

  Open For Business 3.0.0 now available for download. This release includes hundreds of new features and now has nearly all functionality required for a retail fulfillment based business and many other types of businesses to operate. It is an excellent foundation for custom in-house projects and commercial derivative works, or as a basis for applications provided as a service. It includes: - advanced e-commerce - catalog management - promotion & pricing management - order management (sales & purchase) - customer management (part of general party management) - warehouse management - fulfillment (auto stock moves, batched pick, pack & ship) - accounting (invoice, payment & billing accounts) - manufacturing management - general work effort management (events, tasks, projects, requests, etc) - content management (for product content, web sites, general content, blogging, forums, etc) - and much more all in an open source package! There are also many new features and tools in the framework, include enhanced content management, form & survey tools and enhancements to the Entity Engine, Service Engine, and the various other framework components. The organization of the project has also been changed to make it more componentized. Each component is a self contained set of Java classes/resources, entity & service definitions, and web applications. Third party components can now be dropped in as-is to a hot-deploy directory and automatically deployed. For more information see the Open For Business Project (OFBiz) web site at "http://www.ofbiz.org".

  posted by jonesde 2067 days ago

• OFBiz CVS Respository and Mailing Lists Moved

  A few weeks ago we started the move of our CVS repository and mailing lists from SourceForge to java.net. This move is now complete and seems to be running well, so we request that everyone using the old mailing lists start to use the new ones. We also now offer the latest OFBiz code from the ofbiz CVS module on the java.net CVS servers. Regards, -David & Andy

  posted by jonesde 2252 days ago

• Code committed

  azeneski committed patchset 2578 of module commonapp to the The Apache Open For Business Project CVS repository, changing 1 files

  posted by azeneski 2273 days ago