Meet The CEO – XTuple’s Ned Lilly
Our first Meet The CEO podcast featured Ned Lilly, the CEO of open source ERP vendor XTuple. XTuple works in a hybrid model, offering a free,open source product (Postbooks) as well as a commercial version (OpenMFG). XTuple also added a third offering, Standard edition.
XTuple is an example of the ‘reverse’ open source business model-it used to sell only a commercial version of its ERP product(OpenMFG), but then decided to release a free,open source, yet somewhat limited version in Postbooks, which focuses on accounting, purchasing,CRM and inventory management but lacks the depth of the manufacturing functionality OpenMFG is well-know for.
The company has never raised money and built a solid business around its OpenMFG’s strong manufacturing capabilities. They have close to 100 customers, which was a pleasant surprise. Most of the customers are in the U.S where the company is located and most of its partners are.
Listen to Meet The CEO – Xtuple’s Ned Lilly Podcast
Meet The CEO – XTuple’s Ned Lilly
