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We understand.  You're busy running your business, and upgrading your xTuple software isn't exactly your top priority.  Maybe you've read about some of the fantastic new features in version 3.5, maybe you've even joined us for one of our regular webinar series - but it just hasn't made it to the top of the list.

Please allow us to give you a little nudge.  Through the end of the year we're offering special pricing on our consulting services to help you upgrade your system to the current release.  Depending on your needs, consulting can include site survey, upgrade plan, remote and/or onsite support and, of course, any required modifications to your custom reports or scripts.

You know you need it.  Let us help.

Here's the best part.  The sooner you sign up, the more you can save.  We expect heavy demand for these services later in the year, but we've set up some special pricing to encourage getting started on the upgrade sooner.

Here are the details.

We're pleased to announce the final release of xTuple ERP 3.5.0, now available for download from Sourceforge via the all-in-one installers.  This is a major new release, with drop ship purchasing for distributors, expanded tooling support for manufacturers, basic time and expense entry for professional services, and much more (press release, final release notes).

We're also ready to go with the free trial period for our xTuple Cloud service.  Read more about it here.

If you're upgrading your own database from a prior release, be sure to check out Monique's blog.  And of course, if you were an XTN subscriber, we'd be doing it for you while you went and got yourself a glass of iced tea.  Doesn't that sound nice?

Finally, a hearty thanks to our fantastic community of customers, partners, and open source users around the world for helping make this the best xTuple release yet! Read more »

The chart above shows the incredible results of our haxTuple bug derby.  The orange line is the number of open bugs; the red line is the number of bugs fixed during the contest.  As you can see, the lines crossed on the very last day of the contest - 324 bugs fixed, and just 313 remaining (out of over 10,000 over the life of the company).

A big part of the reason for this surge was our haxTuple winner, Scott Zuke of Core Services Group.  Core is an xTuple partner in western Michigan, and is also behind the forthcoming Time and Expense functionality (more on that later!)  As soon as we can get our hands on one (we've placed our pre-order), Scott will receive the iPad grand prize.  (No, not that one!)

But it was a photo finish - for the last week or so, it was back and forth between Scott and Alfredo Martinez, of Yucatán, Mexico.  Alfredo oversees the xTuple implementation at a large furniture manufacturer there, and recently became a partner as well.

We had great participation from a number of other users, including other partners, customers, and open source community contributors.  A big thanks to everyone that participated!  On the off chance that people will occasionally find additional bugs in the software, we look forward to doing this again with a future release of xTuple! Read more »

There's a headline that will wake up a lot of people ;-)

But seriously, we're interested in starting a more active dialog with community members on something that's very close to our hearts as a business:  making money.  You might even call it a Goal.  Yes, we want to make the world a better place for business software users - but we also want to make sure we're striking the right balance of customer and community user value.

To that end, we'd really appreciate it if you could answer one question.  Put very simply, what would you be willing to pay for? Read more »

xTuple, creators of the leading open source ERP, accounting, and CRM system, is looking for a few good hackers.  By "hackers," of course, we mean developers willing to get involved in source code.  The classical use of the term. Read more »