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As the world becomes increasingly connected, open source can -- and must -- become a force for positive change in the world, not just software.

The new philosophy for opentaps could be summed up as "Make it Benefit the Maximum Number of People," with the goals of making it as easy, inclusive, as useful as possible.

If the iPad is indeed delivering 98% of the tablets' web traffic, then Google Android's open source business model has failed. By making Android open source, Google has not gotten the traffic from Android devices in return.

Try the new opentaps v2 Notes Application, built with Apache Geronimo 3, OSGI blueprint, openJPA and HTML5/Javascript/CSS. New shipping integration for Fedex and Endicia are available for opentaps and ofbiz. opentaps in the Cloud is now available on the Amazon ec2 m1.medium instance type.

Does the iPhone's momentum mean that the age-old laws of the software industry have finally been overturned, and software vendors must be as concerned with the happiness of users as with the number of users?

An example of a mobile e-commerce site showcasing opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM and JQuery Mobile.

In each computing era, there was a defining piece of software. This article looks at the defining software of eras past and present--mainframes, PC's, and Web--and ponders what the defining software of the Mobile era will be.

Two significant contributions from the opentaps community now position opentaps for further growth in Europe and Latin America: a new module for Value Added Taxes (VAT) and translations to Spanish.

opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM Version 1.5 offers a unique open source ERP + CRM solution that can be deployed easily in the cloud on the Amazon EC2 platform. This combination offers ease of deployment, low cost, and flexibility to businesses worldwide, from small startups to midsize manufacturers to Fortune 500 companies.

Can open source and community development processes create a fundamentally better kind of enterprise software? What would it look like, and how would it be different than ERP and CRM -- even open source ones -- we see today?

In this update about the opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM project, we talk about opentaps In The Cloud with Amazon EC2, upgrading to Apache OFBiz 10.04, and new partners who have joined opentaps.

Can open source developers create software that directly benefit people, instead of wait for either implementers or the likes of Apple, Google, not to mention Microsoft and Oracle, to do it with our code?

Cloud computing and open source applications is a great combination. You get all the benefits of the cloud: easy to deploy, easy to maintain, low upfront and long-term infrastructure costs. But you also get all the benefits of open source: flexibility, low cost applications, and control — control of your software and most importantly, your data.

The opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM has released version 1.5M1. This new version is designed to allow users to get up and running on opentaps quickly and help developers with customizing opentaps.

In this quarterly update, the project manager of opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM discusses recent changes to make opentaps easier to set up, configure, and customize.

opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM Version 1.4.1 is now released and ready for download from SourceForge.

opentaps 1.4 was officially released in March 2010. This release features many new features in CRM, manufacturing, supply chain management, and financial accounting; improved user interface thanks to the Google Web Toolkit; hibernate keyword search; VOIP integration with Asterisk; improved Web security; the opentaps Domain Driven Architecture with Spring framework and hibernate; and upgraded versions of the Apache Tomcat and OFBiz

When I first found out about open source software, I felt the sky was the limit — with the source code, I could do anything now! But after working on open source ERP for the last seven years, I’ve come to realize that customizing software, even open source software, should not be taken lightly. I recently spoke with Phil Simon, long-time enterprise software veteran and author of "The Next Wave of Technologies" and "Why New Systems Fail", and asked him for his thoughts on when you should customize open source software such as ERP and CRM. Here’s what he had to say...

opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM Version 1.4 was officially released today and can be downloaded from SourceForge. This release introduces many new features and reports in CRM, Financials, manufacturing, and purchasing; new human resources and project management applications; Web application security enhancements; and a much more advanced technical framework with the domain driven architecture, Spring, hibernate, and the Google Web Toolkit.

The integration between the opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM and Magento e-commerce platforms has been released.