ERP Application/1

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Some History of Open Source ERP

This is a lesson part of the module ERP Application Setup out of the Open Source ERP/Executive Masters course conducted by a private university.

Though Open Source has been around for some time, an ERP Application of high quality that is Open Source is a recent phenomena.
Compiere is the first such application to hit SourceForge in 2000. In 2006 it got funded and introduced a commercial approach that resulted in the community forking a new project called ADempiere.
Though these projects began to grow along their own paths, Compiere^[1] has established a firm base of what ERP can be in Open Source.

Find out more about the history from ADempiere's wiki.^[2]
Find out what new features or functionalities that each project has brought about lately. Also look at another Compiere's fork which is Open Bravo^[3].
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