Metasfresh

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metasfresh
Developer(s) metas GmbH, [1] Community
Repository github.com/metasfresh
Written in Java, JavaScript, XML, SQL
Operating system Server: Linux
Clients: Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS
Type ERP, CRM, Accounting, MRP
License GPLv2/ GPLv3
Website metasfresh.com/en

Metasfresh is an open-source, free ERP software designed and developed for SMEs. Metasfresh is an actively maintained fork of ADempiere and can be used and distributed freely. [2] It does not require a contributor license agreement from partners or contributors. Metasfresh was included in the Top 9 Open Source ERPs to Consider by opensource.com. [3]

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History

In September 2006, the founders of Metasfresh started with open-source ERP development as early contributors to the ADempiere ERP Project. They were founding members of the ADempiere Foundation [4] and longtime members of the Functional and Technical Team at ADempiere. [5] In industry-specific ERP projects in the SME sector, they developed several new features based on ADempiere 3.5.4. They rewrote the majority of the ADempiere Code to try to provide more scalable software for midsize companies. This, plus the already-resulted gap in development compared to the latest ADempiere Codebase, was the reason for the team to decide in 2015 to officially fork from ADempiere and develop a new project called Metasfresh.

The code was released to the public on October 6, 2015. According to Open Hub statistics, Metasfresh is one of the most active open-source ERP projects worldwide. [6]

Technology

Software & Architecture

Metasfresh is written in Java, JavaScript scripting language and works with PostgreSQL database management system. The development repository is publicly available on GitHub. It is composed of Client [7] and Server [8] components. The main Client is a Java Swing User Interface and available for production environments. Currently, a new web interface is under development.

Used Technologies:

Business functionalities/ features

The feature List of metasfresh covers the majority of requirements of medium-sized enterprises for ERP software.

Differences to the ADempiere Project

After the fork from Compiere, the ADempiere community followed the open-source model of the Bazaar described in Eric Raymond's article The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The development mainly relied on the architecture inherited from Compiere, which had a tight coupling to the database. The license of ADempiere is GPL 2. Open-source projects with licenses compatible with GPL 2 are decreasing. [9]

With the fork, metasfresh's main aims for the project are:

Currently, the time between stable releases, including bug fixes and new features, is one week, according to the project's release notes. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Official Company Website".
  2. ↑ "metasfresh Source Code". GitHub . Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "opensource.com Top 9 open source ERP systems to consider" . Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "ADempiere Foundation" . Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  5. ↑ "metasfresh contributors at ADempiere" . Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  6. ↑ "OpenHub ERP Development Activity Level" . Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  7. ↑ "metasfresh Client Installation". metasfresh. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  8. ↑ "metasfresh Server Installation". metasfresh. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  9. ↑ "Top Open Source Licenses" . Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  10. ↑ "Release Notes at GitHub". GitHub . Retrieved 19 January 2017.
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