ERP software, originally debuted in the 90s, and has been able to connect parts of businesses that were previously disconnected from each other.

Just 9 percent of respondents reported using an alternative ERP model. Those models included software as a service, open-source tools and various in-house applications.

ERP has been a kind of final frontier for open source software. But now more IT leaders at midsize and smaller businesses are saying yes to open source software for ERP systems that pump the very ...

Open-source ERP (enterprise resource planning) software may still represent a small chunk of the overall market, but as a concept it has clearly gained a critical mass of adherents. Two open ...

The vendor builds its wares with open-source technologies including MySQL database software, the Linux operating system, Apache for its Web servers and PHP for a lot of the coding.

Their open-source-software project—or community-source, as they refer to it—was a complex undertaking, requiring technical and financial collaboration among multiple institutions.

The products are advanced ERP software solutions built with open source components. OpenMFG is available under a hybrid license whereby customers have full access to the source code, and any ...