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Introduction

What is Free Enterprise?

Free Enterprise is a FreeFree Enterprise Enterprise Management Management System System.

What does Free Enterprise do?

Free Enterprise is intended to help people run their businesses.

It is designed to be as flexible as possible, in order to suit any conceivable type of business. It includes modules for:

  • Financial analysis and projections.
  • Inventory systems.
  • Sales and marketing.
  • Human resources.
  • Record management.
  • Report generation.
and so on.

Can I use it?

Yes, and no.

Yes, you can use Free Enterprise under the conditions of the GNU General Public License.

No, you can't use it to get any work done. Sorry. I am trying to get it into a presentable state. Curently I've got a bunch of notes, sketches, spreadsheet models spread sheet models, and other stuff that are being turned into designs and documentation.

I expect to start writing the actual software... ...real soon now. 8-P

Specifications

Features

Business start-up
Business plan
Pro-forma projections
Organization and Incorporation
Operations
Marketing
Sales
Production
Services
Quality Assurance and Control
Inventory
Shipping and Receiving
Development
Human Resources
Risk Management
Finances and Accounting
Records Management

Design goals

Modular design
Flexibility
Extensibility
Portability
Comprehensive Documentation for
Developers
Administrators
End users

Required software

Before you can use Free Enterprise you will need to install and configure:

A web server
For example Apache.
An SQL server.
Such as PostgreSQL.
A PERL interpreter
Various optional features (such as using barcodes) require the appropriate CPAN modules.
An XSLT processor
such as Xalan.
An XHTML and CSS compliant web browser
such as Mozilla Firefox.

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