Best of open source enterprise software

InfoWorld's 2009 Bossie Awards

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    Best of open source enterprise software

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    Compiere

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    Dimdim

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    Drupal

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    Intalio BPM

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    JasperSoft BI Suite

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    Magento

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    Openbravo ERP

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    Pentaho BI Suite

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    Piwik

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    SugarCRM

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    WordPress

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    Top 10 Open Source Hall of Famers

Magento

Magento leads in e-commerce with catalog and customer management, central administration over multiple storefronts, support for multiple currencies and languages, and strong reporting and analytics. Rules-based promotion tools and proactive alerts rival the real-time order management capabilities of many commercial products.

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August 31, 2009
roderickm 2-Sep-09 7:12pm

Call ‘em cool, but don’t call ‘em open. DimDim has gone the proprietary SaaS route.

The last source code published (v4.5) was nine months ago, which effectively shut out potential contributors and user/promoters. They’re now touting v5.1. Why would anyone contribute bug patches or new features to an old version?

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