4 xTuple Enterprise Resource Planning Mobile-Web client
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10 xTuple is open-source business management software. The code is managed by an eponymous
11 company in Norfolk, VA, but our community stretches around the world. Our web application
12 is implemented as an [HTML5 node.js app](https://github.com/xtuple/xtuple/wiki/Overview).
14 Most of our commercial customers are inventory-based manufacturers or distributors, and we have a
15 fair amount of commercially-licensed code to specifically support these use-cases. That said,
16 businesses of all sorts, even services-based companies, run their operations on our open-source
19 We're always happy for people to use xTuple as a launching point for their own projects,
20 whether or not you have a commercial relationship with us.
22 ### Why you might be interested in hacking on our software
24 The xTuple platform provides a great starting point for business software in practically
25 any industry. What you get for free is an entire stack to work on top of, and a lot
26 of business objects that you might want, like `Invoices`, `Currencies`, `Tasks` and
27 `Contacts` (and about a hundred more) are already implemented.
29 Moreover, one of the great strengths of the framework is extensibility and privilege
30 control. Our extension system allows for a high level of modularity, and keeps you
31 from having to rewrite the core. Fine-grained, centrally-managed privilege
32 control is also an important feature that businesses typically want, and
33 we've taken special care to implement it reliably across the application.
37 Fork us, take a test drive with our [free trial](http://www.xtuple.com/free-trial),
39 If you want to be a contributor and are looking for a place to
40 make your mark, we're keeping a list of issues that are
41 [fair game](https://github.com/xtuple/xtuple/issues?labels=fair+game)
42 to pick off and provide
43 a convenient, well-documented starting point into our project.
45 ### Installing this project
47 The best way to start coding on our stack is to use our
48 [Vagrant setup](https://github.com/xtuple/xtuple-vagrant/blob/master/README.md).
52 View the [Release Notes](RELEASE.md) to see a change log.
54 ### Additional Resources
56 * [Setting up a non-development demo environment](https://github.com/xtuple/xtuple/wiki/How-to-set-up-xTuple)
57 * [Building an Extension Tutorial](https://github.com/xtuple/xtuple-extensions/blob/master/docs/TUTORIAL.md)
58 * [API documentation](http://xtuple.com/jsdoc)
59 * [Developer Wiki](https://github.com/xtuple/xtuple/wiki)