Comparison of xTuple ERP Editions
The short answer: it's completely your decision. Our goal here is to give you as much information as you need, and to show you as much of the product(s) as you'd like to see.
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The best way to get acquainted with the xTuple Applications is via the informative demo videos: 5 to 10 minutes apiece, showing various elements of the system. You can watch right on your PC. Watch the videos now! |
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You can also review our 10-page features brochure, either all at once, or individually: |
The xTuple ERP applications are a two-tier system: a graphical client built with the open source Qt framework, and a server running the open source PostgreSQL database. All three applications include the OpenRPT report writer, which we built as part of the original OpenMFG application, and contributed back to the open source community several years ago. All of the application business logic resides in the database, so there is no middle tier (e.g. Java / application server), and the client is quite "thin" and simple. You don't need to run a virtual machine, or other resource-intensive things like that.
Also, because Qt enables a truly cross-platform solution (Windows, Linux, and Mac), we don't have to do anything special to your operating system. That means no complicated installer, registry settings, or anything else that could interfere with other applications on your computer. You just run the xTuple binary out of the one directory it lives in, and you're off and running.
The same xTuple binary can connect to a database for any of the three products. That means that upgrading from PostBooks to xTuple Standard or OpenMFG Edition is as simple as running a two-minute script on your database. It also underscores our commitment to maintaining a single code base, where our paid enterprise customers and the larger community of open source users can share and work together in one online hub for all three products.
Your decision on which product to try will probably turn on two major criteria:
1) Specific functional requirements (see below)
2) Whether you require source code to evaluate the software
If you want the full open source treatment - totally free software, source code for both the GUI client and the database server - then your choice is obvious: Download PostBooks now. You get the universal xTuple client binary, the PostgreSQL database server, the PostBooks starter database to load into PostgreSQL, and of course the full source code.
If that seems a bit much, or you want to evaluate more advanced functionality, you can download the same xTuple client, and just connect to your own personal demo database in our data center. (You'll need to have a confirmed user name and password, and request the demo here).
Here's a comparison of what functionality you'll find in xTuple's three ERP products. Blue hyperslinks will take you to a Flash video on that particular subject.
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