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ADempiere project is one year old now, more precisely 13 months old. Before one year father project Compiere had around 60 partners, which was quite good number. Each partner was obliged to pay 3 000 USD per year which made 180 000 USD income only from partners. Today Compiere has 32 partners and each pays 8 000 USD = 256 000 USD year. It looks that Compiere Inc. managed to increase it's income, but number of partner dropped by half. It is Compiere inc. decision how much to charge for partnership, i'm not going to discuss this now. But it is very interesting observation that although income from partners increased Compiere Inc. decided to close source code access to Service Packs and push users to pay for it. It looks that only money from partners are not enough for the Inc.. Well it is again Compiere Inc. right to decide how much to charge for access to source code and how much not to charge, but users can see that functionality which ADempiere provides get bigger and bigger e...

Today's Enterprise software, particularly ERP-CRM is quite complex for use and administration. The same applies for sources and setup of workspace and build. Quite often in forums of ADempiere ERP-CRM we see complains that setup of development environment is complicated and labour extensive. Many times developers spend 2-3 days trying to setup workspace without result and post desperate messages in forums asking for assistance. In order to decrease time spent for setup i created ADempiere DVD which contains all ADempiere sources, Eclipse IDE and Sun JDK. All properly setuped and ready for use. Developer only need to copy one directory to his local hard drive and start customizing and extending ADempiere ERP-CRM suite. Currently there are two editions available: for Windows and Linux Operating systems. Trifon Trifonov