Openbravo announced on Tuesday its next-generation Enterprise Resource Planning product, called "QuickStart," an alternative to the company's generally more labor-intensive community package. QuickStart represents a change in strategy for Openbravo. Unlike the ERP product that bears the company's name, QuickStart is not open source. It is proprietary, not covered by the GPL license that covers Openbravo. The decision to go proprietary with QuickStart was based on business preferences to not allow some module developers to extend that functionality to QuickStart for free...

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