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Openbravo, the leading developer of web-based open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Point-of-Sale (PoS) solutions, has announced today the launch of its updated open source web-based ERP software, Openbravo ERP 2.40.

With the release of Openbravo’s beta version of ERP 2.40, which is available for download from SourceForge.net, Openbravo continues its innovations in user experience. Openbravo ERP 2.40 has updated the product with numerous enhancements focused on two distinct key areas that users care about most: increased user productivity and improved global functionality.

The new release also includes several additional improvements in other areas. The functional scope has been broadened with an enhanced projects and services module, with newly introduced features such as a historical salary category, goods receipt by PO number and purchase requisitions support. Reports have been revamped, including a new payment ageing balancing, budget and Pareto reports with a broadened payments report for more than one business partner at a time. Infrastructure has been upgraded with significantly revised security and more control over user roles, audit to review who created and updated each transaction, additional web services, and better reporting back to Openbravo to help the development process and PostgreSQL 8.3 support.

“The release of Openbravo ERP 2.40 is the product of generous effort from our community to simplify enterprise resource planning,” said Paolo Juvara, Chief Products Officer of Openbravo. “With all the enhancements contained in this update, the fundamental advantage to 2.40 is that it simply makes the end user’s business run more efficiently and effectively. It is with great support and feedback from our community that we have made our best web-based ERP system to date.”

To learn more about Openbravo products and services visit the Openbravo website, and to download and install Openbravo ERP 2.40 beta visit the download page. Openbravo Network 2.40, the commercial subscription service Openbravo offers to clients looking for professional support for a complete solution, is expected to be released in September.

To encourage the creation of more Web-based applications during the next several years, Google Inc. will invest in three key areas for developers, including opening up its servers to host their applications, encouraging pervasive connectivity to the Web, and making the browser more powerful, said Vic Gundotra, Google’s vice president of engineering, who gave the opening keynote speech at this year’s Google Developer Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

“Google was born in the era of the Web,” Gundotra said. “It’s the only platform we’ve known. It was a platform that was formed by consensus. It was all of us collectively that agreed to a few standards. We feel a debt of gratitude toward that community.”

Gundotra conceded that Web developers working atop Google-provided development tools and servers would lead to remunerative opportunities for the Mountain View, Calif.-based company. “As the Web gets bigger and enables better Web apps, it attracts more users. For us, more users means more Google searches, which leads to more revenue. But the money we make will get dumped back into the platform.