Userland
- Opensourceforu.com published a nice round-up of open source CRM applications, which complements another list from Forbes from a bit little earlier. Conspicuous by its absence in both lists is SugarCRM however.
- A report from Latam Insurance Review examines the open source ERP market, which it predicts to have solid growth in markets like APAC and Europe over the next ten years.
- ZDNet took a look at version 22.10 of Vanilla OS, released on Dec. 29th. While based on Ubuntu Kinetic and a “vanilla” GNOME desktop, it offers unique features such as an immutable OS core, options to containerize applications, and built-in support for multiple package formats (via Fedora and Arch system containers).
- A list from It’s FOSS looks at open source “kanban”-style task management software. Usual suspects like Taiga and WeKan are present, but Focalboard looks like a nice option that integrates with Mattermost.
Server closet
- ComputerWeekly.com took a look at LAION’s Open Assistant, a competitor to the recently launched ChatGPT bot from Open AI. Open Assistant released a new alpha version on Jan. 4th.
- It’s FOSS included a number of open source options in their list of alternatives to GitHub. Note that some, like GitLab, can be hosted both on-prem or in the cloud.
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