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Now's the Time to Replace your old MAS 90/200 with xTupleERP

Is your company is currently using MAS 90 or MAS 200 as its business system, and it‘s not going well? Does it may take many hours of effort to get the information you need to run the business – using spreadsheets, hand-written notes, and lots of digging? Do you have other outside applications that aren‘t tied into your main system and it can be difficult to coordinate the two?If your
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When will Business realize the approaching wave of Apple users has arrived?

We want a Mac!
Starting a couple of years ago the first wave of college graduates entered the business world that had never used a Windows machine. Right now I'm looking over the 15 or so people gather in the local coffee shop - all on their computers, and only one using a Windows machine.

Being a Business Management Software guy - I struck up a conversation with her and asked about her Windows usage. Yep - because that's what her company uses. She has a Mac and an iPad at home (I don't even have one!), and hates having to use Windows - I told her to change jobs - she asked me for one. Well maybe, because she currently sells software and I'm guessing pretty good at it. Even with the Windows handicap!

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A Humorous View into the ERP Sales Cycle

Ran across a bit on the web, while doing one thing or another - its not called the Web for nothing!! Kind of sucks you in and then you've lost 2 hours of your life. But sometimes you stumble across something that is just delightful and needs to be shared, which is what happened to me.

I found an outfit in Austria called Seven Lakes Software that developed a single user inventory application for the Mac. They have a page on their website called CO-ERP course, which they describe as "how to sell overpriced, crappy ERP software that doesn't fit in a prospect's business". This is a clever, funny and uncomfortable accurate account of the ERP sales process.

Please do go here to read the entire post, but I'm going to borrow a snippet to illustrate how open source xTuple ERP is different from other solutions - who shall remain unnamed. Here's the snippet from Lesson 1 Hide your Product:


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xTuple Migrates Training Videos to YouTube

xTuple is in the process of publishing training videos to YouTube. Just another example of how xTuple differentiates itself from the traditional ERP company.

One of the challenges in the open source ERP world is demonstrating that ongoing commitment to the user community. xTuple supports a world-wide user group through its xtuple.org website, where users can post questions, search archives and get all the documentation on xTuple. Licensed users of xTuple ERP can also post and track bugs and fixes to the software.
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Free Webinar Introducing Open Source xTuple ERP

Wally Tonra, the VP of Sales at xTuple, is hosting a free webinar to introduce new users to xTuple ERP. This is a great way for anyone that is interested in ERP in general or specifically xTuple's ERP suite of products.Interested in learning more about xTuple open source ERP, accounting, and CRM?Then partcipate in this web event on Wednesday December 2nd.  This is not a sales promotion but information
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