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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder | Jeffrey Lyon Ned Lilly |
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Products | ERP |
xTuple is an enterprise software company that develops and markets software under the brand name xTuple ERP.
The company was originally formed in 2001 as OpenMFG and rebranded as xTuple in 2007. The company is privately held. [1]
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xTuple began under the name OpenMFG, developing its product of the same name beginning in the year 2001. Jeffrey Lyon, the original developer cofounded OpenMFG with Ned Lilly in October 2001.
OpenMFG was a commercially licensed ERP system targeted toward small to midsize manufacturers. The company adopted a "community code" model, meaning customers who purchase or subscribe to licenses for the product have access to view and modify the source code. Unlike open source software, however, the code was not made publicly available.
OpenMFG spent several years building its product, and settled into a release cycle of roughly one major release every twelve months. Version 2.0 of OpenMFG released in 2006, adding Master Production Schedule, multi-currency, and CRM functionalities.
Jeffrey Lyon departed OpenMFG in 2004, and eventually founded ERP company SabeSoft.
The project was originally to be released under the "xTuple License," a derivative of the Mozilla Public License, but xTuple was quickly criticized for introducing "yet another" open source license variant. [2] However, at that very same conference SocialText announced the release of the new Open Source Initiative approved Common Public Attribution License (CPAL). Two days later xTuple switched PostBooks to CPAL and became the second company to adopt this license.
In an announcement made by xTuple's CEO, xTuple has discontinued offering any products under an open source license and, now, distributes its products under a commercial software license, unique in that it claims full rights over any modifications made to xTuple products by its customers.[ citation needed ]
The Distribution, Manufacturing, and Enterprise Editions of xTuple are commercially licensed Enterprise resource planning solutions. All three products are built on the same Open source technology foundation, and share the same code base.
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