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In the latest part of "An Open Source Business", we take a look at the online music world and the business models for competing with or even making a business out of "free."

The project manager of opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM discusses the new Google Web Toolkit (GWT) based search, Amazon Cloud (EC2) images for opentaps, and a new look for opentaps and opentaps.org

The Release Candidate for opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM Version 1.4 is now available for download from sourceforge.net

What will make a commercial open source project successful? Unfortunately, most people miss the two basic reasons why software succeeds or fails -- and doom years of development from the start.

You can now deploy opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM on Amazon EC2 using new Amazon Machine Images for opentaps. These images allow you to deploy an Amazon EC2 server with opentaps with demo data pre-installed on either a MySQL or PostgreSQL database. To use them, just search for “opentaps” under “Community AMIs” when launching a new Amazon EC2 instance.

A quarterly review of opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM, including the upgrades to the new versions of Apache OFBiz, Tomcat, and Funambol, and the recent community wish list for opentaps.

In this case study about a US-based manufacturing company with 200 employees replaced its legacy mainframe ERP system with opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM. In the process, the company was able to reduce costs, connect with new business partners worldwide, and replace a Windows-based IT infrastructure with Linux.

Not every open source project could support successful businesses. In part 2 of the series "An Open Source Business," we talk about what is required for an open source project to become a successful business.

A quarterly update of the development of the opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM system